i wasn't saying read the article in a vaccuum, we all know a lot here and i was saying lets apply what we all know to the concepts in the article. i don't want ideas constricted to only whats in the article.
if we accept that a device can send decent audio via bluetooth to a stereo, a car stereo, or headphones, and that it can store some music as well, (& do AM/FM) then we are close to a product i'd like to have. i do not own any of these portable deals, but i have used the new touch ipod. it has built in wifi, and can browse the web, etc... so can some of these other products. so whats missing? i do not yet know of any product that can use its wifi capability to stream, but i am not as certain as you that none can. more importantly, i am sure some WILL be able to, at some near future point. its pretty much inevitable, is it not? i mean we are talking about audio players that already have wifi, right? given such a scenario, one could stream to such a device via SS. and at that point, your whole library is available, and you would additionally have the ability to take some of it with you portably. so really, the only thing missing at that point, would be the ability to control SS remotely via the device. but even that could be done via the devices wifi/browser functionality. (and the touch ipod for instance had a pretty fully featured browser). i'm not trying to make slim obsolete, but you could see how it could become so pretty quick given what i wrote above. my hope is that slim recognizes this, and starts things about some of the things i've been suggesting for a long time. (not an ego thing, i just want to see slim put out a dream type project) i have to say i do not know anything about jive, and i'm confused by it. are there any links about it? pics? explanations? i know right now there is sb3, and transporter. so jive is next. will all 3 use SS 7.0? is it going to get a new name? SC 7.0? is the jive platform different from 7.0? its exciting to me to hear that this jive thing will have a headphone jack. will it also have a color screen? will it have any onboard storage? -- MrSinatra www.LION-Radio.org Using: Squeezebox2 w/SS 6.5.5 (beta!?) - Win XP Pro SP2 - 3.2ghz / 2gig ram - D-Link DIR-655 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MrSinatra's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2336 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=40106 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
