SBS is not a problem ;) and generaly disliked ? It's the main reason that the products performs so well a lot of whats going on on the player is in reality performed by the server and it is varius plugins and addons in the background.
for example i can play spotify on my old SB3 ano 2006 that players fw and memory won't fit anymore addons and services, but due to servertranscoding and a nice plugin this is possible. and it is also possible to play audio formats not supported by the old hardware with the server so slimdevices/logitech has an ambition to futureproof thier products . Imho turning the hardware to a dlna player and a usb soundcard would truly turn it into a bland " me too " product that would be gone in a couple of months. what the masses wants it's neither dlna or sbs they do not want to be tied to a computer/server/nas at all. they want a spotify box or pandora napster box and similar for webradio and then airtunes to beam music to their friends stereo with thier phones, if they own any music at all it's sits in thier phones. i don't see the problem really if you are prepared to have a fullsize PC running for just playing music ( i'm not, my mini-itx linux is not even close to my listening room ) ? You migth as-well just install SBS ? It uses minimal resources compared to many programs and runs in the background. have you actually used sbs if you already decided thats it's bad ? It is not perfect and lack features imho but it is not that bad, pros are still greater than the cons. there are great iPad apps avaible too. -- 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
