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Zaragon;267674 Wrote: > > In practice I suspect what you would end up doing is building a small > form factor general purpose computer with solid state storage and then > tailoring an operating system to it. Probably something like a linux > variant on a rewritable storage medium. Irrespective of what hardware > acceleration I personally can't see another way of achieving a workable > solution. Agreed 100%. The "missing piece" is, IMHO, a reasonably spec'd Linux box with a very stripped down OS.... but then we're back to describing basically a high-power NAS box with some custom code for "insert a disc and have it rip automatically" and a pretty configuration front end. (Leaving out the front end would be bad, I am not sure the target audience would like to learn about rippers and encoders on their PC.) In short, the same sort of box as a NAS, but with better CPU and RAM specs than most, and some pretty simple custom software. Of course, this is sort of what Sonos has, and I am not sure how many Sonos users end up ripping music and how many just use Rhapsody... my bet is that most still just use Rhapsody. Which brings us to another problem: people here are not normal. My parents would never ever spend even $300 on a music player, and they brought me up in a music-listening household... but it is just not as crucial to them as it is to me.... they are probably far closer to 'normal' than I am... So you're still talking about a very very small audience. Seperating the "I want" ideals from "what would the average guy in BestBuy want" is very hard, and I don't think most people here realize that their tastes and values differ greatly from the way most people listen to music, and that most people really don't care about anything but Top40. -- snarlydwarf ------------------------------------------------------------------------ snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43198 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
