aubuti;252879 Wrote: > Okay, I follow you now. But making slimserver, which is obviously a > server application, into a CD-playing application seems like a huge > stretch, especially across multiple platforms. I'm not trying to shoot > down your idea -- I imagine it would be useful to some people. But just > a couple of the many details to work out are (1) with multiple SBs, how > does slimserver know to which SB it should stream the CD?, and (2) most > headless computers running slimserver are in relatively inaccessible > places, so popping a CD in isn't necessarily convenient.
Hi aubuti, 1) This could hopefully be easily selected within the relevant page of an enhanced SS (why not?) 2) The Waveinput plugin itself is already often being used in this way, right? The SD Dir of Engineering wrote that people had been requesting this for years! I believe I'm not the only one who would find this enhancement extremely functional. It seems to me that serving music files from an optical-drive platter is just as much "serving", as when it serves from a hard-drive platter. Users would still serve most music from ripped copies on harddrive, but being able to also spin the occasional CD on your SS computer would be a function, that more people would appreciate than you might think. :) Honestly, why not enhance SS to do this? And why not also have an option to serve the PCM audio to a selected soundcard? Maybe it is extremely difficult to program and implement, I don't know. Perhaps I am the only one who would really enjoy and use these functions... -- NewBuyer ------------------------------------------------------------------------ NewBuyer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7862 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41577 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
