JJZolx;211319 Wrote: > A more plausible scenario is that they'd jump on the bandwagon with > everyone else on the planet and open a digital music store. They might > even distinguish themselves for a short while if they offered lossless > Flac downloads of music that aren't available elsewhere.
This would actually be pretty cool. A music store integrated with the SB/SlimServer where you can browse all the worlds music directly on your SB/SlimServer, when you hit the "Buy" button on the remote it would download a correctly tagged FLAC version of the song/album to your local SlimServer together with album art and other details. A short time after it has started the download it can also start to play it, some buffer time would be required since many doesn't have a broadband connection that can stream the FLAC fast enough. The next time you browse to the same song/album, you don't have to buy it since it is already available in your local SlimServer. The problem here is of course that the music industry wouldn't allow this unless the FLAC is encrypted and copy protected in some way so it is impossible to use it on another computer. -- erland Erland Isaksson 'My homepage' (http://erland.homeip.net) 'My download page' (http://erland.homeip.net/download) (Developer of 'TrackStat, SQLPlayList, DynamicPlayList, Custom Browse, Custom Scan, Custom Skip, Multi Library and RandomPlayList plugins' (http://wiki.erland.homeip.net/index.php/Category:SlimServer)) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ erland's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3124 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35881 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
