Owen Smith wrote: > And AAC has to be licenced, so for any manufacturer to add it to an old > player there are licence costs to consider. Many licences are per device > that plays it, so for a manufacturer to put out a free software upgrade > that might be installed on tens of thousands of players could cost a lot > in licence fees. It's simply not going to happen. For non-Logitech devices, such as Internet Radios that also support UPnP, even if they can't handle aac and/or HLS, a UPnP server such as minimserver can (and does) handle the necessary protocols and transcoding for live listening. LMS with squeeze2upnp can (and does) do the same. The future of listen-again is a bigger problem, and is, as far as I can tell from public utterances, almost nothing is known about it's future. If the BBC iPlayer plugin can be fixed for listen-again there's nothing much in it for Logitech either on the older devices.
I don't expect smaller suppliers, such as Musical Fidelity, to do much if anything about HLS, at least until the Beeping Beeb makes up it's mind about DASH etc. LMS 7.9 on VortexBox Midi, Xubuntu 14.04, FLACs 16->24 bit, 44.1->192kbps. LMS & Squeeze2upnp (Beta - derived from squeezelite) to Musical Fidelity M1 CLiC and Marantz CR603 UPnP renderers. Squeezelite to PC sound. Minimserver (server) and upplay (control point) to same amps & to upmpdcli/mpd PC renderers. Meridian USB Explorer DAC from PCs to speakers/headphones. Wireless Xubuntu 14.04 laptop controls LMS/upplay via Firefox. Have a Touch with EDO, and a spare, but don't use. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PasTim's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=41642 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=103158 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
