I have one of the old iPhones, and got the new software, including the remote app. I mostly use iTunes when I want to listen on my computer, and SB when I want to listen throughout the house.
The iPhone "remote" is cool because it is not IR -- it uses the iPhone's wireless connection to talk to iTunes on the computer. Slick. So it would be totally cool for me to have iTunes running and providing a menu and have it play using the SB's player. Yet I have been struggling for several years now to make the iTunes support in SlimServer work completely, notably with playlists. Sometimes it works, then I upgrade, or make a change and then it sort of works, or rescanning fails, or playlists are listed but contents are not read, etc, etc, etc. Sure, Apple's not making life easy for anyone but themselves, and iTunes is a moving target (and don't get me started about DRM :-) but the Slim/Logitech folks can either fight, or they can embrace iTunes. I love my SqueezeBoxes. I have been using this product for years now. When it works it's great. But I have to say that it frequently doesn't work, and it's frustrating enough to throw up my hands and go the AirTunes direction ... and know it will just work. So rather than making remarks about people who use iTunes or are thrilled with the idea of the Remote application for the iPhone, perhaps the community could recognize that we're not all audiophiles, and sometimes it's just nice to listen to music without pain and suffering! (And PS. Someone should write an iPhone application for SB that works just like the iTunes remote. That would be cool). -- tharrison ------------------------------------------------------------------------ tharrison's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4831 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=49790 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
