SuperQ;188530 Wrote: 
> This is a very simple, lightweight, and synchronous design.  The only
> disadvantage is that if there is latency introduced at any stage in the
> pipeline, say the slimserver is busy and does not respond to the
> keypress, UI is adversely affected.

Simple is the keyword here.  The "only" disadvantage to this approach
is that it's one that is not going to fly in the consumer world.  I
don't care how you rationalize it: It's a dead end.  You can't rely on
the computing power of an arbitrary server, what that server might be
doing, what it might be running, how f****ed up it might be in terms of
ant-viruses and spyware and every other thing under the sun.  No company
in its right mind would put itself in the position to deal with all the
support headaches that scenario entails.  SlimServer and Squeezebox has
done well so far due to the geek appeal and the reliance on the
knowledge of its user base.  That's about to end.


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JJZolx

Jim
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