> I can see the flaws, and I've chosen to deal with the ones I can > control... <take this lightly ;-> Me too - I bought a Sonos ;-)
> My sb and slimp3 interoperate just fine with my stereo and TV. My > mediamvp interoperates not only with another TV, but > another piece of software I'm running on my server. I want my player (Squeezebox, whatever) to do exactly the same - interoperate with any other device (where practical). > I do, because if I discover a problem with the kernel, > I have the capability of fixing it...not that I have, > but the option is always there. I see your point, but there's always a line to draw in the sand here. I could say that if I find a problem with the cpu, I want to fix it - so I only use CPUs which are fpgas, and hence only use old versions of the SPARC processor. Perhaps we draw the line at a different point? > The sb2 doesn't, but now you're mixing hardware and > software again. Well, I'm viewing it as a product. Hardware/software/firmware - doesn't really matter. I don't really care how an iPod is constructed, and how much of it is firmware or hardware. I care that I can drop MP3s on it and it works (or perhaps that I can't drop FLAC or ObbVorbis on it). In this case, MP3 is an example of the common contract. And, you could make the argument that MP3 is proprietary - Fraunhofer holds patents on it, and is therefore their intellectual property. It is, however, practially an open standard - everybody knows about it, everybody uses it, there are no secrets to it, everybody uses it. I don't care how device X decodes MP3 - I care that I can feed device X an MP3 and it plays. > It's just a shame that you seem to have made up your > mind and haven't really said what technical problems > you're having. I'll paraphrase from my 2nd post: My NAS device runs Slimserver. Unfortunately, the version of Slimserver it runs won't transcode m4a files (AAC) - not enough horsepower on the box apparently. I know the standard version of Slimserver will do this, but that would require another boxen to run Slimserver. I don't want to run another boxen. Hence, Slimserver/Squeezebox2 won't play m4a's in my case. I want to keep everything in m4a, so I can't use the Slimserver/Squeezebox2 with the setup that I want. Thanks again for the comments. -- yubyub _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
