On 11/27/06, your momo ...
Therefore I'm proposing to implement a minimal stand-alone mode on board. I'm targeting especially on Transporter as it offer enough inner space for that, his higher price point also allows more freedom. ...
Have fun, and good luck. There've been about ten similar proposals since I bought my first SliMP3. Most have been along the lines of "if you won't rewrite in my favorite language, I'll take my toys and go home!" A few have turned into realities like ReadyNAS and QNAP and SlimCD. There's also a decent number of folks on here who are quietly providing professional audio installation services with prebuilt headless servers; as far as their clients are concerned, it's all taken care of by the nice wood-panel box in the corner, not a homebrew server with some Perl scripts. Gotchas: 1) Defining "bare essentials" in a way that leaves you with a product anyone wants to buy is going to be very difficult. 2) Integrating with someone else's hardware is not easy, unless you're planning to buy the Transporters, mod them, and then resell them, and that's a big old potential can of worms. SDI might have been cool with that, though probably not. Logitech is unlikely to approve. 3) Even if those issues didn't apply, the audiophile target audience would turn their noses up at the idea of putting extra boards in the case to emit EMF all over their bits. You're better off designing your own blackbox in a similar form factor to sit on top or underneath the Transporter. -- "I spent all me tin with the ladies drinking gin, So across the Western ocean I must wander" -- traditional _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
