JJZolx;266479 Wrote: > Why not? That would seem to be the ovious way of doing it, particularly > if synching and whole house audio are a priority.
I also think that a system where audio is "pushed" from the server (like the Sonos) would be much better for whole house synching than the approach used by SlimServer/SqueezeCenter. We could have proper gapless, synched playback and we could have an audio input on the server for true place-shifting. I agree that when SlimServer started out that was probably impossible but now we have 802.11n and 5.0GHz and QoS I'm not at all sure. I think there is now the opportunity to match every aspect of the Sonos system without resorting to proprietry protocols. The DRM problem might be more difficult. I don't really know what the restrictions are. Presumably you can get the digital audio from Rhapsody out of the Squeezebox? What stops you feeding that back onto the network as a decrypted stream? In the meantime, while I wait for Sonos to move to 802.11n or SlimDevices to move from "pull" to "push", I have my own solution which would work fine for people wanting to listen to the same synched Rhapsody stream in as many rooms as they like. Take the digital output from the Squeezebox and wire it to all your rooms. Simple. If you don't like wires then feed it into a video sender (go for 5.8GHz to avoid interference). You can still use a SqueezeController (or whatever) anywhere on your wireless network to control it. In fact, why bother with a Squeezebox at all? Just build a nice little nano-ITX box and run SqueezeCentre and Softsqueeze on it. Plug in a video sender and listen to it anywhere. -- shawkie ------------------------------------------------------------------------ shawkie's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3751 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43155 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
