Steven Moore;191053 Wrote: > > The big advantage of the Apple tv is that it will not need much > maintenance if any. > Squeezebox on the other hand does take a degree of technical knowledge > and a certain amount of maintenance, and if things go wrong... > Which would you recommend to your very non technical relative? > >
This is my point - as much as I like my squeezebox, I'd be reluctant to recommend to anyone even remotely non-technical. iTunes is easy, Apple TV looks easy. In addition, it's pretty good value for money. While I've had fun with my squeezebox, it has been a huge time-suck and required too much fiddling/compromises (the non-ASCII song/filenames issue has caused huge problems for me). In many cases here, I notice plenty of people have dedicated servers, and some have bought some specifically for that. Lots of people I know would not do this - they have one laptop, and aren't going to dedicate it to running an audio client full-time. I also don't understand the comments about the "apple ecosystem." The only "Apple ecosystem" requirement is to use iTunes. Granted, that means users have to be using windows or mac os x, but that does cover just about the entire market. (Would mt-daapd or whatever it's called work?) Anyone using "better" fileformats (like FLAC) is probably sophisticated enough to set up a converter to populate iTunes with AAC, MP3 or apple lossless files. This will make the slimserver a much, much harder sell. Or relegate SD to a hard-core niche market. On the other hand, maybe that's where they want to go with the $2000 transporter. -- gsalton ------------------------------------------------------------------------ gsalton's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7598 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31559 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
