mortslim;364359 Wrote: > > Slim Devices may want to consider its own hard drive equipped > Squeezebox with networking capabilities as a response.
Not a bad idea... a more simple solution than a NAS or a low-power server (or any dedicated server, for that matter), and a Squeezebox music server would be far more preferable (at least to me) than an iTunes one, as I dislike almost everything about iTunes, and need support for flac and ogg. But I'm not in that market, as I already have an always-on SqueezeCenter in the form of my NAS, and I'm sure a lot of people on these forums would prefer the flexibility that installing SqueezeCenter on a dedicated home server brings. But there is a market for less tech-savvy music listeners that Apple TV (and iPod/iTunes, for that matter) taps into, and Slim Devices could maybe muscle in on. The first immediate advantage (in my opinion) of a Squeezebox over an Airport Express, is the built-in display and ir control that the SB3 has (it's so much quicker/simpler than having to pick up something and open an app--especially as the lame-o iPhone doesn't allow background applications to run--just to see what song is playing or to change a track). I wouldn't trade either of them for anything. -- JadeMonkee 2x squeezebox classics {1x wired, 1x wifi} | squeezecentre v7.2.1 | 'readynas duo' (http://www.readynas.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=22) { raidiator 4.14 | 1gb hynix hymd512m646cfp8-j | 2x 1tb samsung hd103uj } | d-link dir-655 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JadeMonkee's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=20481 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=55543 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss