aubuti Wrote: > I pretty much agree with this view, and want to add something that is > obvious, but hasn't been mentioned in this thread, which is that SB is > multi-platform. So whether SD decided to bundle other programs to > rip/tag/etc. or develop their own, they'd have to do it for Windows, > Mac, and Linux. So all the management headaches that radish mentions > are multiplied by a factor of 3 (at least).
That's true, but the best ripping software is PC-only EAC. I use a Mac as my server and I use iTunes so that other iTunes-based machines in my home can access the music as well as my SB. If EAC was cross platform, I would switch to FLAC and go over to SoftSqueeze for those machines. I not a big fan of the Slimserver UI, I find it too slow compared to similar software like iTunes, and it doesn't have built-in ripping. Having to rip and then start a rescan is pretty horrible compared to other MP3 software. That's underlined by the recent offering of a ReadyNAS server as part of the deal - you still can't rip CDs and even if you could hook up a CD drive to the ReadyNAS, EAC doesn't run on it. In some ways it's a backwards step, a PC loaded with drives and a RAID card is a complete solution and it's the route I will go eventually. OK, so other's have this problem too, but what would be wrong with offering a complete system in one download for PCs instead of the piecemeal approach? OK, you can't do it for Mac and Linux, but most of the world are on Windows, like it or not. Perhaps Slim don't mind, but at some point, all us geeks who wanyt an SB will have one and then what next? -- CardinalFang You're only young once, but you can be immature forever... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CardinalFang's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=962 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=25168 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
