So, lucky me, every Squeezebox I own is still 100% functional. But I know eventually something's going to break, and dammit I really like these things. So to prepare myself for that dreadful day, I wanted to write out my personal feature wishlist (sort of prioritized), and see what's out there that best matches what I want.
1. Ogg Vorbis support. Yeah, let's start with a curveball, shall we? 100% of my music is in Ogg Vorbis format, so good support is a must, but on-the-fly transcoding is fine. 2. Gapless playback 3. Multi-device sync (without breaking gapless playback!) 4. Multi-tagging + ALBUMARTIST support 5. Replaygain support 6. Ability to play Internet streams (i.e. radio stations) 7. Ability to control playback from and show Now Playing info/visualizations on that device 8. IR remote support As far as what's out there: for packaged products, we have Sonos, Olive, and various DLNA implementations (anything else?). Then, for projects, we have, AFAICT, various ways to run SqueezeLite--on a Raspberry Pi, on an HTPC, on a tablet, etc. First off, did I miss anything? Secondly, how well do each of these replacements stack up, relative to an actual Squeezebox? If I understand correctly, #2, #3, and #4 are hard to come by in packaged products, and #7 and #8 might be hard to accomplish via SqueezeLite. I probably handle #7 and #8 via the SlimServer web interface (or some other interface) on a phone or tablet, although I really do strongly prefer using the IR remote control over the web interface. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CatBus's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7461 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=103588 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
