While I don't have any interest in PlaysForSure (sic) myself, I also
wonder about the future of Squeezebox firmwares, when I've heard the
same thing about getting a little tight on room.

Here's my thought and I'd love to hear feedback from a SlimDevices
person.  I assume a lot of the "room" in the firmware is taken up by
decoders.  I also assume that most users only actually need one or two
decoders--the problem is that every user needs a DIFFERENT one or two
decoders.

So...what about a codec-free firmware with codec plugins?  SlimServer
would know which codecs you needed after scanning your system (plus
MP3/WMA for web streams).  An advanced user could select extra codecs
if they listened to the odd OGG stream, etc.  Or even just have
multiple swappable firmwares: fw-open, fw-ms, and fw-apple.

Not that any of this is necessary yet, but I could see it getting that
way.


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