On Sun, 2005-07-31 at 21:54 -0700, datdude wrote: > pfarrell Wrote: > > What's a "desktop MP3 player"? > JRiver MeidaCenter, Winamp, Itunes... > > I think that more online web services being integrated into desktop > apps is where its going. Eventualy other than pure html you won't know > the difference between something that is served off the web vs your > desktop (having no context of what the app was for).
OK, I would have just called them local applications. Winamp can be a client for the SlimServer, but I guess that is not quite what you are looking for. It is really hard to write a local application that is platform independent. Java, Perl, etc. come close, but there are security issues with having complete access to the hardware. The Mac OS-X does a good job of offering audio services, and modern Linux distros do as well. I'm not smart enough to see how to do it with Windows, and given that Windows Vista is due RSN, whatever I do now would have to be at least ported. If you just want to run Winamp or a similar program, why bother with SlimServer at all? Just get a big disk. While the softsqueeze is a cool program, it is really just a software equivalent to the SqueezeBox, which is pretty dumb hardware. -- Pat http://www.pfarrell.com/music/slimserver/slimsoftware.html _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
