bonze;380607 Wrote: > But it will only work if you also have a SqueezeBox? > (or am I reading that wrong) > > In which case..... why?? As I read it, the Squeezebox is required so that SqueezeCenter has a player to stream to. The Linn software intercepts what gets sent to the Squeezebox and sends it to the DS. But it strikes me that this ought to work with SoftSqueeze, so no need to buy the actual hardware?
There's a wider issue that's affected by this. The biggest problem for streaming audio at present seems to be that there are a multitude of competing systems each with their own server technology. Before streaming audio can become mainstream, the various device manufacturers will have to converge on one (or a small number) of server technologies. Or failing that, at least they need to converge on a protocol so that different manufacturers can build servers and clients that are interoperable. The audio world doesn't expect to be locked in to one vendor's devices - we should be able to have a Duet in the bedroom and a Klimax DS in the lounge, running off the same server, if we want. The fact that a respected high end audio company like Linn have started integrating with SqueezeCenter is good news - it signals the start of some sort of convergence (and to the "correct" server technology, as far as we here are concerned :-) -- cliveb Transporter -> ATC SCM100A ------------------------------------------------------------------------ cliveb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=348 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=57813 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
