It is a pretty typical "thin client" type design. It does give numerous advantages in flexibility.
For example, suppose you had a Way Cool UltraDAC and PreAMP. Therefore you wanted to use the digital outs of the SB to the DAC, and use the volume of the Preamp... but didn't want to have Yet Another Remote in the pile. With an IRBlaster, you could set things up so that the volume button on the SB didn't change the SB volume at all... just the Preamp volume. And of course, there is the truly wonderful VolumeGuard plugin that changes volume back to what you wanted when a pesky spouse or girlfriend turns the music down... it needs to intercept the volume controls to do that. With things other than Volume, of course, it leads to a lot more flexibility in plugins. Pressing "5" on my remote rates a track as having 5 stars using the TrackStat plugin... There is no way that sort of complexity could be in the SB hardware itself. Latency can be a user interface issue, but then I don't use Squeezenetwork often at all... my local server is always on anyway. -- snarlydwarf ------------------------------------------------------------------------ snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=36143 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
