The server in the hifi rack ? That's actually the exact opposite of the original squeezebox idea .
Players ( multiple of them if you wish ) where the music should be and server tucked away somewhere else . Pulling music from players with thier ir remote screen or nowadays tablet or phone app , with the now ever present laptops the web UI see regular use as a remote UI too ,it's really more of an admin interface not a music player program per see . But the web-UI is a bit ambivalent here to it does offer some music experience on screen and some plugins can get you bio's and pictures and lyrics etc . Another way to get the Squeebox idea " wrong " is to think of it as a long cable to the soundcard ( which it technically is not thank you very much ) . but the server can be coaxed into do this to ? There are plugins to media monkey and foobar 2000 for that . And you can sit in front of the pc and push music to the hifi like in the old days ( I did some of that before I got squeezeboxes ) . If this is your usage patern I would actually sugest getting a long cable to the soundcard :D But it does make me think ,that this software is so flexible that it can be used in so many ways even in scenarios not existing when it first was conceived and even in ways that it actually was designed to remedy . Sorry to see Logitech miss so much opportunities ? What do we have at least 2 derivative of the server daphile and vortexbox ( I think there some more adaptations out there ) and hopefully even more adaptations in the future . But never mind my long winded post . I'm just trying to figure who this product is made for ? Is there a use case for daphile as a regular server edition for a headless server , or I'm I better of with others . I'm quite happy using a *ux OS and tuck,it away somewhere and I do cd ripping with other computers ? No usb DAC or similar even close to where my server usually is . You can also develop stuff that LMS and is web are not so good at , playlist creation for example is a bit primitive and always associated with a player . -------------------------------------------------------------------- Main hifi: Touch + CIA PS +MeridianG68J MeridianHD621 MeridianG98DH 2 x MeridianDSP5200 MeridianDSP5200HC 2 xMeridianDSP3100 +Rel Stadium 3 sub. Bedroom/Office: Boom Kitchen: Touch + powered Fostex PM0.4 Misc use: Radio (with battery) iPad1 with iPengHD & SqueezePad (in storage SB3, reciever ,controller ) server HP proliant micro server N36L with ClearOS Linux http://people.xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=99132 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
