erland;645199 Wrote: 
> Could you please describe how I would control the system with any of
> these nice applications when the computer is powered OFF ?
> Because as I understand, we both agree that most people would prefer to
> have the computer powered off when listening to music in their living
> room or viewing a video or picture on the TV.
> 
> 
> Right and that's where the focus should be, not on Windows, not on
> OSX.
> The Touch runs Linux by the way, so to make TinySBS work, it needs to
> work on Linux.
> 
> The problem with the Touch is just that its hardware is not up to the
> task, too little memory to slow CPU, the hardware in the Revue probably
> fast enough. I believe the Revue also runs Linux by the way.

You would obviously need a PC to control Squeezeboxes with popular
software plugins.
What I mean is that

- developping SBS LMS for Linux (not speaking about Touch hardware,
which is TinySBS, not SBS) seems pointless to me if Windows/OSX is not
acceptable, an it is not, and developer team cannot face all that. So
if you really want to develop SBS/LMS, focus on Windows, may be OSX if
you can afford it, don't care about Linux.

- I think that the best solution with a computer on would be to forget
about LMS/SBS (computer required), but work out a dev toolkit to use
popular and successful softwares, Squeezebox being some kind of "smart
ethernet soundcard" of great quality.

- The solution without computer is a TinySBS (no SBS, no LMS). Ok the
hardware is not powerful enough, but if you forget about SBS/LMS, you
can tune it better. You will have to forget geek hype and plugins, but
the team cannot work on everything. A good thing could be to compute de
database on a real PC with a software (scanner, nothing else) giving the
TinySBS database on the USB device to save time.


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