garym wrote: > I have very little hirez, but the Sonos deal killer for me is the > inability to handle more than about 60,000 files (except in some back > door clunky way involving windows media player). I have 70,000 files > and I'm only a third of my way through ripping my CDs. > I understand why they neither focus on 24/96 nor 65,000+ libraries, the main reasons are likely that the amount of users with a lot of 24/96 files who also cares about audio quality or the amount of users with 65,000+ libraries, is both probably fairly small compared to the amount of users they can gain in other areas. Adding a new streaming service would probably easily give them a lot more users than what adding 24/96 and support for 65,000+ libraries would do.
If I've understood correctly you can get around the 65,000+ limitation by using a PC as server using WMP, Sonospy or similar solution. It will of course require you to have the PC powered on but this is also the case for Squeezebox which needs LMS/SBS to be running on a PC if you want to have larger libraries than what can be supported with the built-in server in a Squeezebox Touch. Of course, I don't really have a Sonos myself, so maybe WMP/Sonospy creates other problems/limitations. The biggest obstacle for me with Sonos is their more closed model which makes it harder (but probably not impossible) to add functionality through third party add-ons if Sonos doesn't want to develop a certain functionality I like to have. Still, I've sometimes been thinking about getting one just to evaluate it a bit, I'm just a bit scared that I won't see the potential unless I switch to Sonos in all rooms and that's not something I'm prepared to do yet as the Squeezebox system I have really works great. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ erland's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3124 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=95603 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
