jean2;696231 Wrote: > > Powerful server : people nowadays buy laptops and tablets, not servers. > Powerful servers consume too much electricity for my taste. >
My server consumes 7w's. Increasing the CPU and RAM in the Squeezebox will just increase its power use by at least the same. Plus there is zero point having huge CPU and ram in every Squeezebox to cater for the 1 that needs to run as the server. That will lead to multiple devices wasting power and multiple devices costing far too much. With your TinyLMS idea why is the Squeezebox the server and not the TV, the bluray player or the fridge? Should they all be a server also just in case they don't have a Squeezebox on the network also? Where are the media files actually stored? Is it the Squeezebox, the TV, the networked toaster or the Laptop that is downloading the files? If the media files are on the Squeezebox, does it support all the other future protocols required by the other devices accessing the files? Eg is it a common OS like Windows or Linux? I am confused how Logitech will go supporting a Samsung TV from the Squeezebox product. Currently LMS UPnP doesn't work with Samsung TV's so I would need to install Samsung's Windows based UPnP app on to the Squeezebox? Dreamers be dreamers, the server ideal is fine. How on earth do you think people are using their smart TV, PS3, Xbox 360, bluray player with upnp if not with a server? LMS is fine, it runs on all major platforms so is easy to get running. The user wants a server, that isnt Logitech forcing the user in to it, it is the users own usage that is forcing it. A central data store of the media files on a common OS is the only sane and logical way to do this stuff. That same central data store may as well be running LMS and other services for the other devices. Users that can't figure out how to run a server need to ask someone else for help. Really TinyLMS? You think that changes anything? -- bits ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bits's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13375 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=94109 _______________________________________________ beta mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/beta
