Michaelwagner wrote: > Why the design continued that way when the SB1 hardware did have the > ability to handle limited key input and so forth is a bigger question.
Well, the name of the company gives away the philosophy. It is Slim Devices. > The idea of a slim client is a good one ... And the other approach has been taken by many folks, from Turtle Beach to Sonos and now Microsoft and Apple. > Unfortunately, such a design > implies that there are other people who will build the rest of it. > There are, but they're all geeks. No one has made a commercial success > of (and few enough have even tried) making a Slim Server box. I'm not at all clear on what you are saying here. Making a slimserver is trivial. At least as long as you don't expect to put it in the living room with the rest of your stereo. You can use any old PC and any old operating system, whatever you want. > The Audiotron, for all that it wasn't as audiophile, was a more > complete solution and for that reason, appealing. For your needs, you can claim. Please don't make such claims for me, the attraction of the SqueezeBox is its slimness and open code. And its ability to put the ugly and noisy PC in the basement, far from my serious listening positions. I can not understand why people want controls and buttons on the SqueezeBox. That is what remotes, laptops and PDAs are for. My SqueezeBoxes are far away from me, putting buttons mice, touchscreens, etc on it is more than useless, it is counter productive and will raise the cost for zero benefit to me. Now on to the topic, I've got a Contour Shuttle Pro that I set up as a controller for my recording studio software. It is completely programmable. And it was pretty cheap, about $90. Wired with USB. Lots of buttons, fast and slow twist, jog wheel, etc. You'd need a trivial client application to accept the input and feed the CLI port of the SlimServer, but that would be fairly easy to do. -- Pat http://www.pfarrell.com/music/slimserver/slimsoftware.html _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
