The problem is, every computer-based audio system requires ripping. You can't blame this on Slim Devices, everyone has to rip, even users of fairly primitive "long audio cable" - type devices like this one:
http://tinyurl.com/e5wyl Nor do you have to use EAC. dBpowerAMP, for example, is virtually a zero-configuration ripper. It works just fine on undamaged CDs. Attempts so far to produce an all-in-one device have more or less failed. The Olive Musica is one such device and it apparently suffers from lack of flexibility - a small hard drive, a very closed, inflexible architecture and a high price. The Squeezebox is so flexible it actually allows you to choose, which is quite a radical idea in these days of iTunes/iPod, manufacturer-specific DRM and the like. Choose your ripper, choose your OS, choose your server, choose your hard drive size. -- Mark Lanctot ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25168 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
