Re: [slim] Anyone thought about AIRPLAY support in Squeezebox Server?
All Linn DS products now with Davaar firmware support Airplay. Absolutely no hardware changes at all. Vortexbox player had AirPlay for a while. Software only. XBMC has AirPlay support. As has already been said the software is trivial to do, that's not the issue, and providing unofficial software support based on reverse engineering is entirely different to having an officially sanctioned product. I can't imagine Linn are an Apple technology licensee so they have nothing to lose (except money if the lawyers are set on them!), but Logitech will be under signed agreements and no doubt have lots of current and future products in the market based on those licences. Even now, a year on, as far as I'm aware airplay on consumer devices is still only available on a single hardware platform. -- RadBadMark RadBadMark's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=46389 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=85059 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
Re: [slim] Anyone thought about AIRPLAY support in Squeezebox Server?
analographi;636182 Wrote: wrong. You don't even have to license with apple! You can license with them: http://www.bridgeco.com/apple-airplay/ Apple has partnered with them: http://www.tuaw.com/2010/09/09/with-airplay-apple-opens-itunes-software-to-a-3rd-party/ Of course you have to have a license with Apple! Bridgeco wouldn't be allowed to deal with you if you didn't, and anything that has Airplay in needs to be tested and certified by Apple themselves before it can be sold. Bridgeco are in the business of selling silicon and provide the hardware platform that's capable of Airplay, they don't (and wouldn't be allowed to) provide the software stack that runs on it for integration into anybody elses platform. Bottom line: a firmware update could turn any squeezi into a true airplay endpoint to which we could stream from iphones, ipods, ipads or those who want itunes. This is very true from a technical point of view and would be fairly trivial to implement ..but as has been mentoned already - whether Logitech would want it, and whether Apple would licence it for integration into the squeezebox platform is another thing entirely :) -- RadBadMark RadBadMark's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=46389 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=85059 ___ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
