Hi! I really like the Squeezebox products, but I'm wondering why it cannot be used with upnp/dlna-certified servers? I'm using a consumer NAS (DiskStation from Synology), which provides an upnp server. with 64MB RAM and 266 MHz it's probably too slow to run slimserver fast enough, but even if it's fast enough, I have to void my guarantee if I install it. From the synology community I know, that many people would buy a squeezebox, if they had not to install slimserver. And I don't think that many people like running it on their PCs with 200W power consumption. And probably most people don't like going to their PC, booting it to swith slimserver on before they can listen to music on sunday morning...
upnp and especialy dlna has become something like an industry standard. Even PS3, Apple TV and other products can play music and videos from an upnp server. Since squeezebox did not support upnp, I bought a Freecom MusicPal, which is far cheaper and is capable of playing media from upnp servers. But this device has some problems (which have nothing to do with its upnp integration, which works perfectly), so I'd really like to optain 2 squeezeboxes. So I'm asking here, if their is a chance that squeezeboxes will support upnp servers some day? And yes, I have read some threads about the topic, like http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=29706 http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43840 and I understood that there are so meny great plugins which would not work using a upnp server. But are you sure that there are more people who need these plugins, than people who want to use their existing upnp servers? I'm using mediatomb as upnp server, and here you can change the whole listing and browsing structure of your files. This is the most critical task I think. I think that most people want a convenient listing of their files, and want to browse through the mp3-metadata of their music collection. That's what you can do with an upnp server like mediatomb. mediatomb is really nice, as here is a very active community which improves the server, and it's very customizable and runs nicely on a NAS (there are already ipkg packages for most NAS). And as response to the "rendering on the server" issue, I'm programmer too and I relly don't see the difficulty in changing the interface-layer, to simply render the upnp data send from the server. Free libraries are available for all platforms which will do the most difficult tasks like communication with upnp servers. Why not supporting both slimserver for those needing the plugins, and upnp for those who simply want to listen to their mp3 collection without breaking the guarantee of their NAS? Have a look at the list of devices mediatomb upnp server supports: http://mediatomb.cc/pages/devices (not complete!). Or look at what TwonkyVision supports: http://www.twonkymedia.com/Products/TwonkyMedia/devices.html So if squeezebox would support upnp too, everybody using any of the devices mentioned in the links above could use a squeezebox, without the need of installing any aditional software! And don't forget that installing slimserver on a NAS is not a simple task for the average user... (most NAS already ship with upnp servers, some even with twonky or mediatomb). Once there is upnp server support, I'll definitely buy 2 or perhaps 3 squeezeboxes, because I really like the devices itself. I hope this will happen before other companies come up with similar devices including upnp support. best regards Andreas -- andreask2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ andreask2's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15718 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=43923 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
