Labarum wrote: > > A software with all the ability of Logitech Media Server and able to > send media streams to any Apple compatible (Airplay) device would be a > boon. Apple would hate it, and the software would no doubt have to be > constantly modified to dodge spoiling tactics, but that's one way to > go. > I think some (maybe all) of the iPhone/iPad third party Squeezebox player apps available can already do this, I know iPeng can but I think it also work with SqueezePad, but I guess you are talking about being able to do it without a iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch involved ?
Labarum wrote: > > Another might be if Google bought or bought into the Squeezebox system. > Philosophically the Squeezebox tradition sits well with the Android > ecosystem, but I don't know if applications written in Perl sit so > easily. Can anyone tell me? > You can already today get an Android based Squeezebox, just install the SqueezePlayer app on your Android device and it will appear as a Squeezebox player in same way as any other Squeezebox. I'm not sure if it will be able to stream from mysqueezebox.com provided services since Logitech tends to ban third party players from it but it should work perfectly for locally stored music or sources provided through LMS plugins. There is no way Google is going to acquire och base anything on Squeezebox hardware/software, they could take inspiration from the Squeezebox feature set and produce something similar from a feature perspective but I would be very surprised if they tried to reuse any hardware or software from it. However, in reality I'm not too optimistic about Google and the music streaming business, I think they they have a long road to go before they understand the user needs, historically they also have had a tendency to do a lot of half finished experiments and then focused on something else. They also have the disadvantage that they have the Google Music service which they are very likely going to try to force us to use which will mean that anything they produce might work great with Google Music but it won't work for people who mainly use other sources. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ erland's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3124 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=96191 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
