lrossouw wrote: > You can do this pretty much with any small form factor pc. You could > slap together a small silent PC with rapsberry pi with digital audio out > via USB sound for probably <$100. You could run linux and > squeezeslave/squeezeplay on it and then you have a squeezebox with all > the regular offline music capabilities. No screen, but you could run it > to your TV and that should give you a nice big screen. Use an app on > your phone for a remote though.
I actually think that for audiophile playback this is the way to go. We should leave the audio engineering to an external usb based dac and keep the streamer to a low power linux platform which runs squeezeplay (or cut down version of it or something similar...) This with LMS + a separate control app would keep the power of LMS + the audiophile capabilities of high bitrate and external dac support. As we see with Sonos - other streamers don't put the effort into crystal dual clocks for driving spdif outs at low jitter for all audio rate - this requires dedicated hardware. We should perhaps leave this to the dac manufactures and just looks to a streamer which has a usbout. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Triode's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=96205 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
