pippin wrote: > Kind of in-between. Currently, for the Squeezeboxes, it's an Applet. > Custom firmware is difficult, lots of proprietary stuff in there that's > actually needed so adding to the standard firmware is easier as long as > that one still works. > > No, it's in the API/on the client side. It might be possible to simulate > that, similar to LMS exposing the Squeezeboxes as UPnP devices but me > thinks at least syncing will be difficult with such a scenario (but who > knows... if the latency is known). > > > Well, not anyone. We can't make dumb devices more intelligent. But our > system is simple enough to fit into a lot of devices. > > > > Well, our "server protocol" is very different from what the Squeezeboxes > do. We do NOT have the intelligence in the server. That's the one > fundamental decision we have made, we believe that embedded devices > these days are powerful enough to be able to have the controller in a > controller and to be able to give the player some kind of autonomy. > This gets us around the problem that the server always needs to be > present and reachable, at all times. A problem haunting the Squeezeboxes > when you don't run the server 24/7. > > It's pretty much what Logitech _should_ have done for the Smart Radio > but it involves a much bigger change in architecture.
It's actualy promising looking forward to see whatever you got , My curiosity is mostly about what use I would have of my current players . But that's transient what really matters is the almost 40000 tracks music collection and associated apps and services :) If I can load an app on my touches I'm happy . What about a boom ? You may answer that later when your ready to release something tangible . Regarding playlist , I do like the smart mix plugin especially the feature to "never stop the music" much better than mip and sugarcube in my book .And one of the more apriciated plugins in my use is the simple bandcamp plugin that mherger put together sometimes it does not have to be very sofisticated to get a good result , that probably the really hard part to make things apparently " obvius " when it's not . ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=98467 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
