radish wrote: > I'm not going to weigh in on SBC vs ipod (they both have their pros & > cons) but I did want to address the question about third party vs first > party apps. Personally, the number and quality of third party apps for > controlling SC is a great demonstration of the openness and > extendability of the platform. I'd much rather have 3 or 4 or 5 > commercially supported apps to choose from than be stuck with the one > "official" one which gets released and then not updated for 2 years. As > far as I'm concerned an open platform with a thriving third party > development community is a huge win for the users. >
Yeah, it's a bit of a nuisance that you have to buy the app in order to test it, but having supported applications that create some revenue for the makers is a big plus. I'm pretty tired of having plugins break on me whenever I upgrade to a new SC version. With a commercial app there's at least a good chance the developers will provide timely fixes. I recently bought a HDX-1000 media server for playing video's. That's a reasonably open $219 device (similar to the popcorn hour). I suppose someone could write an SB client for it, effectively turning it into an SBR. That way I can play music *and* movie sound over the same pair of powered speakers, which would be very nice. Kind of a Video Squeezebox! (someone already wrote a non-playing browsing client: http://code.google.com/p/squeezenmt/ ) You could control the result with an ipod touch, and end up with a fully functional SD music network *without* any SD hardware ;) Oops! Regards, Peter _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
