but a squeezebox is not a " long wire to your soundcard" it's made specifically to not be a part of the drivers and particular OS quirks etc . I've foundly remeber kernel streaming and asio for all etc to circumvent windows kmixer etc, no thanks.
it's main use is the other way around , your are NOT sittting in front of a computer, the server is elsewhere you are selecting music by the player interface ir controll , controller or app. it is also a multiroom solution with the possibility to sync players and control them from each other ( not possible with DLNA). of course all conected players can play different music, or be synced in groups, try to have 14 soundcards installed on the PC ? You not looking at the product for your needs, you need a long catv or rg-6 cable to your dac or ht-amp from your pc and your done, you can then push audio to your stereo from your fav desktop app. squeezebox can be controlled from a web-UI that the server provides, but that UI is avaible on the whole network not only the computer running the server. thisbweb-Ui is also for settings etc. Google slimdevices and slimp3 logitech bougth this company a couple of years ago, slimdevices started 2001 with thier first player slimp3 the DLNA comitte was formed 2003 wonder when the first working dnla applications where launched. so the SBS server servs 9 different kinds of players from the early slimp3 to the nevest Touch and you can use all of them together. I supose Logitech could develop another product losely based on the squeezebox player to be a "ethernet soundcard" . they are after all a hardware company, they have countless variants of mice keyboards and PC speakers. iPod docks and whatnots, but the current Touch seems a little expensive and ovespeced for the purpose. -- Mnyb -------------------------------------------------------------------- Main hifi: Touch + CIA PS +MeridianG68J MeridianHD621 MeridianG98DH 2 x MeridianDSP5200 MeridianDSP5200HC 2 xMeridianDSP3100 +Rel Stadium 3 sub. Bedroom/Office: Boom Kitchen: SB3 + powered Fostex PM0.4 Misc use: Radio (with battery) iPad 64gB wifi +3g with iPengHD & SqueezePad ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=90063 _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/beta
