imdoc wrote: > 1) Is this the nature of the beast, ie wirelees music has lots of > dropouts Am I trying to fix something that hasn't been solved yet?
It depends. Wireless works great for heavily compressed files (mp3, etc.) A lot of users have zero problems with wireless flac files. The bad part is that WiFi can change over time, so what works today may not be as good next week when a neighbor gets a new router, or if they have a bad microwave oven. What I did is run CAT5 ethernet cable from my music server (an ancient PC in the basement) to my main music room. This is where I listen critically to music. For the rest of the house, I use WiFi and its fine. > 2) If music wireless is reliable, can other software be used with the > Slim gadgets, even if I am not taking advantage of the hand held > device? For years, I used a laptop PC to control the SqueezeCenter. I rarely used the remote control. The laptop talks WiFi, which works fine. Now that I have a Controller, I use it perhaps 75% of the time, and the laptop the remaining 25%. I nearly never use the normal IR remote. Any web browser can control the SqueezeCenter. Even one running on a iPhone or other handheld device. But the Slim/Logitech music boxes want to talk to a SqueezeCenter running on a PC, windows, mac, linux, etc. The protocols used between the server and the Receiver, SqueezeBox or Transporter really expect to be talking to the SqueezeCenter software. So, the answer to "other software" is clearly yes, or not, depending on exactly what you mean. -- Pat Farrell http://www.pfarrell.com/ _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
