Hi. My thoughts (for what they're worth) :)

kai;384013 Wrote: 
> Rockfather's development just made me buy a DS and another Squeezebox
> (as display). Thus both, Linn and Logitech, do profit from his
> development. 
> 

I used to use Sonos and Linn systems in my house, but have now changed
to Logitech Duets and Linn due to this development (and the fact that
SC7/Jive is wonderful whereas Sonos is totally unconfigurable). I thus
agree with the above post in that it benefits both stakeholders: many
Linn users will now be tempted to buy Duets and then once they have,
they'll be tempted to 'pepper' their houses with Duet receivers! 

Many of my friends now intend going down this very route; they really
like the idea of a Linn system in the lounge and a mix of Duets/Booms
in bedrooms, kitchens, workshops etc. Three have actually bought Duets
with the intension to add Linn stuff later, so that's three sales to
Logitech and nill to Sonos! 


andyg;381108 Wrote: 
> I'm thinking about writing a plugin that will add UPnP MediaRenderer and
> MediaServer support.  When I get some free time, we'll see. :)

At the minute, I'm using the controller as a 'sacrificial' receiver (to
save tying up one of the Duet receivers) but it would be fantastic not
to have to do this. It would also save having to stream an unnecessary
feed to the Jive and thus cut down on network traffic / NAS workload
etc. It would thus be fantastic to have a SC7 UPnP plugin but I can see
one area that might consideration: unless it performed the same trick
that Linn have used (to upload the selected tracks as a playlist to the
UPnP renderer) it might suffer from the standard UPnP shortfall which is
that gaps are heard between tracks. This wouldn’t be noticeable on many
albums, but on albums where tracks flow seamlessly into each other,
it’s a disaster (this can be heard if you try using Cidero to control a
Linn DS).  

Bri


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