igoddard wrote: > If the latter then I think you need to start with a self-contained > appliance.
I think I have to disagree. The self-contained appliance has been tried a number of times, starting with the 'Rio Advanced Digital Audio Center' (http://www.iapplianceweb.com/appreview/audio_players_27.htm) in 2001. All have been commercial failures. Ripping CD's isn't going to be the dominating way to get your music into your server any more - downloading and streaming are more important, and in any case, you can't rip without keyboard and screen, as CDDB data isn't 100% perfect. So acquiring content is best done on a PC/Mac/whatever. The server, with it's hard disk(s), is best placed away from your music system. The players should be as small as possible, with no moving parts. And you want several of them. So very conflicting requirements - not easily satisfied by a self-contained box. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Julf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=42050 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=97881 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
