mortslim wrote: > bpa;382500 Wrote: > >> If an Ipod is plugged into USB port >> > > I am envisioning a stand-alone product. There are many situations > where I don't want my computer on while listening to music (save energy > to save the planet). I assume that the proposed iPod server would > consume far less energy as a "slim" client. > > In addition, having the embedded SqueezeCenter include the WaveInput > plugin should enable playing radio streams from the iPhone/iPod Touch > as well. I see that at the moment there are some internet radio > services available to these Apple devices which are not currently > available on the Squeezebox: Wolfgang's Concert Vault, Finetune, > Ourstage, and Deezer (only available in Europe on the Squeezebox). It > would be great to have these services connected to any Squeezebox on the > local network as well. > > Finally, maybe add a usb port to the proposed iPod server in case you > want to add a usb hard drive instead of an iPod. >
I think the biggest problem with this is that the SC software is written in Perl and requires a whole OS (and DBMS) underneath it, which makes the hardware requirements rather large. OTOH, there's lots of fairly powerful mini-stuff available judging the netbook craze. It could be done, but it probably wouldn't be cheap. Regards, Peter _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
