w3wilkes wrote: > My understanding is the device is being built as a player with excellent > audio as the goal. You will need to run LMS on another machine in your > network like the receiver of the Duet is today.
I actually think this is the best aproach , if you go down the other route you may just build that HTPC you did not want in the first place . Or buy a computer and install squeezelite on it . Player should be a device separate from the server , that was one of the basic idea behind slim devices and I still like it :) client server solution . A capable server in a central location and small ligth players elsewhere . A fully functional LMS actually needs a fully functional computer ( this definition includes x86 based NAS ) , it can run on less capable devices but in the end you always find a limit where it won't do anymore and ends up installing it on a capable machine anyway . So to be asking for LMS on it would be asking for a device where you basically install a fully functional mini itx board as the brain and this would be " expensive " maybe not so much in a one player system it would be maybe 2-3 more expensive but that would not inhibit audiophiles ,but in a multi room context it would be very expensive to have players with LMS capability everywhere . For development it's another problem , now they *only* have to develop a player . If one really must have server and player together there are a lot of HTPC and fit pc devices etc that you can use today that already provides a solution , so there is need to develop something here . ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=97881 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
