A change in the firmware is what's needed from what I can figure out. [disclaimer - I am clueless so feel free to correct me as necessary]. Whether it's technically or financially possible for Slim Devices to do this with the current hardware I am unsure.
Imagine a menu on the Squeezebox that lets you choose between Slimserver or Rhapsody or Musicmatch or Napster or Yahoo. The Rhapsody software itself can stream via upnp to a upnp enabled device that supports protected wma. No need for slimserver. The Windows Media Connect server software would stream the other subscription services to the Squeezebox. No need for Slimserver. All we would need, and again I have no idea how feasible it is to do this, is firmware that supports protected wma and is Windows Media Connect compatible. If you haven't seen it check out the demo movie here... http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=13002 IMHO making Squeezebox 'Windows Media Connect' compatible would be the "killer app". All of this could be done without losing any of the existing Squeezebox/Slimserver features we currently enjoy. Slimserver would be used as it is today. As you say, if Roku can do it... AV_Guy Wrote: > > But, in the meantime, I sincerely hope the Slim folks will enhance the > SqueezeBox (or at least SB2) to play subscription based DRM WMA. If > Roku can do it, I don't see why Slim cannot? I suspect Microsoft would > love to add the Squeezebox to their list of compatible PlaysForSure > hardware? -- Chris Wood _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
