Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Our Music Listening... in 10 years.

2017-02-10 Thread Mnyb
drmatt wrote: > No, and never will unless you know someone willing to write a connector > for no money whatsoever.. :) > > Just saying that functionality exists outside the LMS universe already, > that's already happened. If that's what you want, you can have it. Shazam is extremely usefull

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Our Music Listening... in 10 years.

2017-02-10 Thread drmatt
Apesbrain wrote: > None of those interface with Squeezebox or with any compatible > alternative. No, and never will unless you know someone willing to write a connector for no money whatsoever.. :) Just saying that functionality exists outside the LMS universe already, that's already happened.

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Our Music Listening... in 10 years.

2017-02-10 Thread Apesbrain
drmatt wrote: > You mean Shazam? I believe Amazon Alexa and apple siri can both do this > too. None of those interface with Squeezebox or with any compatible alternative. Apesbrain's Profile:

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Our Music Listening... in 10 years.

2017-02-10 Thread drmatt
Shazam dont. Amazon tell you what it is, at least, and you can store your own music in their cloud and search the lot of it. -- Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP Microserver NAS with Debian+LMS 7.9.0 Music: ~1300 CDs, as 450 GB of 16/44k FLACs. No less than 3x 24/44k albums..

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Our Music Listening... in 10 years.

2017-02-10 Thread ralphpnj
drmatt wrote: > You mean Shazam? I believe Amazon Alexa and apple siri can both do this > too. And they return the versions that have paid Amazon's or Apple's licensing fee, in other words only those versions available in their own music store, so if the music is not available then they return

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Our Music Listening... in 10 years.

2017-02-10 Thread drmatt
Apesbrain wrote: > It would be great to have an easier way to find things. Sometimes I can > remember a theme from a classical piece but can't put my mind to the > work or composer. How about just hum or whistle what I remember into a > controller app and it pops up the piece I'm seeking? Or

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Our Music Listening... in 10 years.

2017-02-10 Thread ralphpnj
Apesbrain wrote: > It would be great to have an easier way to find things. Sometimes I can > remember a theme from a classical piece but can't put my mind to the > work or composer. How about just hum or whistle what I remember into a > controller app and it pops up the piece I'm seeking? Or

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Our Music Listening... in 10 years.

2017-02-10 Thread Apesbrain
It would be great to have an easier way to find things. Sometimes I can remember a theme from a classical piece but can't put my mind to the work or composer. How about just hum or whistle what I remember into a controller app and it pops up the piece I'm seeking? Or be able to say "Beethoven

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Our Music Listening... in 10 years.

2017-02-10 Thread Mnyb
I would like discrete surround . DSD was never a good idea not even in the 90's you can do equally good with PCM and PCM can be used for processing like mixing and in the end users system for room correction volume DSP crossovers etc . DSD only works in the antique paradigm of DAC to analog

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Our Music Listening... in 10 years.

2017-02-10 Thread drmatt
atrocity wrote: > Maybe this is another one of those audiophile things where No Serious > Listener Would Ever Want More Than Two Speakers. :) I, for one, only have two ears. :) So headphones with acoustic 3D encoding per user is what you need. Multi-speaker setups help present a realistic

Re: [SlimDevices: Audiophiles] Our Music Listening... in 10 years.

2017-02-10 Thread Julf
atrocity wrote: > I'm ripping my SACDs via one of the naughty methods that technically > isn't supposed to exist. Right - that is a curse that will probably stay with us for ever - silly attempts by the content industry to keep control of the material using misguided technical means. "To try