Robin Bowes wrote:
ezkcdude wrote:
your momo;160875 Wrote:
You are not alone ! I'm also "fighting" for such an improvment see this
thread
-->http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=30080
...but this seems a "sensitive" topic, first answer sounds always "it's
impossible"
For me today in 21th century, I belive on "it's impossible that's
impossible" so I poursue my quest to get a slim navigation mode that
permit to use SlimDevices product in stand alone.
Thanks! It's obvious that this would be a great feature. Why some
people are seemingly against it is a mystery to me.
People aren't "seemingly against" this (direct streaming from storage
devices). It's just that the current slim architecture doesn't support it.
They're called "slim devices" for a reason - the actual hardware
(slimp3, Squeezebox 1,2,3, Transporter) doesn't do an awful lot. It
converts sound that is streamed to it, it displays text that is sent to
it, it sends back IR commands that it receives.
The SB's are basically thin clients connecting to a server.
I've compared them to the old teletype terminals with a display, a
keyboard (remote) and a sound interface.
A very flexible design because the functionality may be expanded almost
endlessly by changing the server software (& hardware).
That's why my old SliMP3 still works and can still do almost everything
the Transporter can (I just miss streaming WMA radio stations).
Regards,
Peter
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