Ah yes... Turtle Beach did something like this a few years ago with the Audiotron. Plug it in, power it up and off it goes searching any publically available shares on your network for any compatible music files (MP3, WAV, WMA).
Problem is that Turtle Beach didn't realise they were onto a winner and dropped the product. Shame, because it's about the only network music player that will work without server software (just needs a NAS) or the remote (nice front panel controls). They never actually got around to adding FLAC support, and the character based LCD was a little basic. Squeezebox's dot-matrix VFD is far more readable from across the room. What would be really nice (and there is a big market for it) is a standard Squeezebox (single display) in a slim 17" hi-fi component sized case with front panel controls. Nothing as elaborate as the Transporter, but something you can slot in your hi-fi rack. The kind of thing you can stick in the rack with your AV amp and hook up via SPDIF. -- Squirrel ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Squirrel's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5785 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=30080 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
