vrobin;218382 Wrote: > > The first question everybody's asking when they see my squeezebox is: > "And you can play your music without your computer on? With an usb hard > disk plugged in it?" > > They are very disappointed when I must admit there must be a computer > on to use the squeezebox... and they don't even care about my "low > consumption and totally silent EPIA PC", it's too late. They don't want > to have their computer on to listen to music, if it's on, they have > winamp. (it's a little basic approach but the idea is there). > I can only see two solutions to this: Option 1: Remake the complete SB system and change SB to a fat device instead of a thin device. Would be a huge development job. Option 2: Sell two packages: -- SB only package (for people that accept to have a computer on) -- SB + Small silent server HW package (for people that don't want their normal computer on)
As I see it, option 2 is the only realistic solution. The problem today is that there isn't any recommended SlimServer hardware that is silent, small and works good. There are some NAS boxes which can run SlimServer, but they aren't recommended and some of them requires some customization/hacking to get SlimServer running. Some sort of EPIA PC seems like an ideal solution to me. vrobin;218382 Wrote: > Would't a uPNP/MediaCenter compatibility for the Squeezebox be some sort > of good solution? > > If I only have a NAS uPNP compatible (most of them are nowadays) NAS my > SB can work basically with it. > If I dedicate a computer or if my desktop computer is on, I get the > full power of SS. Sounds a good mean solution. > > Would squeezebox hardware able to handle uPNP server streaming and > control?I don't know much about uPnP, so I might be wrong about this. I think the "problem" is that everything that is shown on the SB display is handled by SlimServer today. So if a SB should connect directly to a uPnP device it basically needs to implement some parts of SlimServer itself. Minimum some browsing code to browse the uPnP device and some display code to display the information from the uPnP device. I don't think this is possible with the current hardware because I know that some codecs aren't included in the SB firmware because there isn't enough space available. If uPnP support was implemented in the SB firmware, I think the result will be that the SB will slowly starting to be a fat device instead of a slim device. I'm not sure that this is what Logitech wants, after all the slim device concept is something that makes the SB unique among the competitors. -- erland Erland Isaksson 'My homepage' (http://erland.homeip.net) 'My download page' (http://erland.homeip.net/download) (Developer of 'TrackStat, SQLPlayList, DynamicPlayList, Custom Browse, Custom Scan, Custom Skip, Multi Library and RandomPlayList plugins' (http://wiki.erland.homeip.net/index.php/Category:SlimServer)) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ erland's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3124 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=37279 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
