garym wrote: > > > Currently, as a backup for SirusXM for my wife (and just to experiment > with myself), I have a single SONOS connect that I've played with and > have connected to my preamp. It's perfectly OK and easy to use, but > after years of Squeezebox and LMS use it is painful to use SONOS. It > can't handle my large music collection, has no ability for plugins and > customization, can't deal with lots of tag issues (multiple artist and > genre tags, for example), chokes on large art, etc. If I had started > with SONOS I'd think it was wonderful. But if I'd been commuting with a > horse & buggy, I'd love driving a 1972 Ford Pinto. But the Sonos is like > moving to the Ford Pinto after having driven a BMW for years. Of course > the Sonos fans will note that SONOS survived and prospered while > Squeezeboxes 'failed' and are no longer produced. They are correct of > course, but one only need remember that the best quality doesn't always > survive (cf., Betamax vs VHS, blu-ray vs DVD-HD). In my opinion > Squeezeboxes suffered from many, many bad home network setups (that were > only "exposed" when one tried to use SB players). Not fair that SB's > were blamed, but it is what it is. > > Here's to a healthy and prosperous 2015 and a future life for all things > squeezebox and LMS.
Still a bit of promotion (and I'll stop after that ...) but with squeeze2upnp you can have your Sonos used from LMS, transparently LMS 7.7.2 - 5 radio, 3 Boom, 4 Duet, 1 Touch, 1 SB2. Sonos 2xPLAY:1, PLAY:3, PLAY:5, Marantz NR1603, JBL OnBeat, XBMC, Foobar2000, XBoxOne (sort of) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ philippe_44's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17261 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=102809 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
