DLNA's a dead end, I think. I've played with a few over the years, notably Twonky, but I can't believe a non-techy will sit there and configure it to try and get audio *and* video working.
Squeezebox is great, but for me at least it's another layer on top of my configuration. I run a Windows box with iTunes on, for all of my video and audio. The iPhones sync off that (and of course I can use iTunes in the Cloud and/or iTunes Match to access stuff when away from home). I use AppleTV which, providing you're happy to use mpeg4 for your video and apple lossless/aac/mp3 for your audio (and none of those are niche, esoteric formats), is genuinely brilliant. The Remote app for controlling AppleTV and/or your iTunes library from an iOs device is good, but not perfect. e.g. browsing music via Remote has no way of browsing by album artist. If you've got umpteen 100s of compilations that means your artist view is effectively too big to be useful. On top of all of that is Squeezebox Server. To be fair, it works great most of the time. I've stopped upgrading the software because that doesn't work great! My only niggle in trying to properly integrate SBS into my set-up is scanning. If I "use iTunes" in SBS then SBS updates when iTunes library changes. Good. I also get my iTunes playlists. Good. But I get all of my films and TV shows in SBS unless I untick them in iTunes. Bad. If I don't "use iTunes" then I can point SBS to my Music folder, and get only my music in SBS. Good. But now I have to manually export my playlists from iTunes. Bad. And manually or via schedule, rescan SBS to pick up new and changed music. Bad But add something like iPeng to SBS and it's a game changer. Access to my music anywhere, great interface. So I'm somehow going to continue making SBS work even though I'm going Apple. But if one of the Squeezeboxes dies, it'll be replaced by an Airplay product. New purchases will be Airplay. Good round-up of airplay speakers here: http://reviews.cnet.com/2300-12698_7-10007138.html -- moley6knipe WinXP SP3 > iTunes 10.3 > SqueezeCenter 7.5.4 > iPeng > Squeezebox 3 / Boom / iPhone > ears ------------------------------------------------------------------------ moley6knipe's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10014 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=93207 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
