Ok, I am long time SB owner/lover and the new remote and my existing AppleTV will NOT be replacing my SB... yet.
I have a friend who i have been trying to get to retire his Audiotron (my last true love) and upgrade to SB. But now, he is very intersted in iphone airport express solution. The iphone remote is truly fantastic, its extremely fast, simple, you would think you were just using your ipod. BUT - (showstopper) the only real issue i think is that, unlike using your ipod, you have no way to make a playlist "on-the-go". I can browse my existing playlists, all of my music, play an individual song, etc, but I can't sit there and queue up songs (or then edit my queue) etc. (BUT ++) Negative on the SB: my music server crashes all the time. Slimserver.exe is at the center of the crash logs, but i DO not blame slim. I'm sure i have some bad RAM or something in that P.O.S. server and i dont want to spend the time or money to 'fix' it. Sadly my server goes down every 5 days or sofor the past year and then music is down. Hard reboot brings it back... but wife blames the SB and then starts to blame me. BUT... i love Last.fm, i dont want to lose that feature. Its not impossible for AppleTV to partner as someone said (they do it with Flickr and Youtube), but I would not hold my breath. I THINK - where I sit now is that I'm going to go upstairs and reboot my server again, install the latest IPENG skin - AND - put the RCA output of my apple TV into my whole house audio system, so i can get optical to the reciever (as it does now) and RCA to the multi-zone whole house. This way, if i dont care about a queue and i just want to play something fast and easy... iphone will rock it. -- jharo ------------------------------------------------------------------------ jharo's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=12286 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=49790 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
