CatBus wrote: > 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 > could 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.
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