Radish, Thanks for your comments. radish Wrote: > SlimServer is about as non-proprietary as you can get. That's not true. If it were, Squeezebox2 would support UPnP or such. I know the server is open source, but that doesn't make the product non-proprietary. Non-proprietary would mean that it uses an established standard to talk to other devices i.e. UPnP, NAS via CIFS or such, etc - i.e. it would talk to other products out of the box. The fact that I can hack the server if I want to doesn't make it non-proprietary.
radish Wrote: > So why can't you run the server? Bung it on a cheap PC and forget about > it. You can get something from the local discount store for $200 which > will run it just fine. This is just a matter of preference. I don't want another machine running - it's another box to fail, another box to update and firewall, etc... With boxes such as Sonos (for example), somebody else worries about it - I just have to update. I work pretty hard as it is, and the last thing I need is my wife calling me saying "I can't use the stereo" - it leaves a bad impression with her (so she may not use the system, which makes the system useless) and means I probably have an extra 1/2 hour of work to do when I get home. I'd rather spend that time with my wife and son. As it is right now, my NAS box just works. Just last night, I upgraded it to 1/2TB in about 5 mins. The box did the rest. I didn't have to worry about it. I spent the time playing "daddy monster" with my kid instead of dealing with partitioning, volume management and resyncing. "Daddy monster" is a much better way to spend your time ;-) radish Wrote: > The other options (as I see them) are something which uses uPnP to do > networking - but you still need a server (and a Windows one at that). My NAS box has a UPnP server built into it, so I don't need an extra PC. > Or something like Audiotron which uses network mounts directly - you > still need a server (SMB in this case), or finally the Sonos who sell > you not only the player, and an amp (which everyone already has), but > even a (very overpriced) computer to run the server on. Great. > </sarcasm> Yeah, Sonos is expensive. But if it's an integrated solution which just works, that's where I am right now. Not ideal for everybody, but it fits my needs and situation. > Right - it's expensive and MUCH more proprietary than SS. Lets say you > drop $3k or whatever on Sonos and they go bust tomorrow. Who's gonna > support you? Who's gonna add support for the next cool audio file > format which comes along? No one. Well, the same thing holds for Slimdevices, so that's a rather specious argument. Are you making a comment about the amount of $ invested in the product? As a side note, it really is too bad that the Squeezebox won't work out for me. I think it's an excellent product. I really was trying to find reasons to keep it. Maybe in the future. -- yubyub _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
