I didn't disagree. Just pointing out that squeezebox wasn't cheap enough
to be a no brainer for anyone when it came out, and like many things to
not really take off in their lifetime it's only really thriving now
because the hardware got cheaper, used. A second life, if you like.
I have to say
atrocity wrote:
> And HDMI to output gapless 5.1 FLAC and DSD!
Considering DSD might have been a good idea in the 90's, we might now
let it rest in peace...
"To try to judge the real from the false will always be hard. In this
fast-growing art of 'high fidelity' the quackery will bear a
drmatt wrote:
> Well yeah. Bear in mind squeezebox touch was, what, £300 new on release?
> That's hardly cheap. And that doesn't even come with a server component
> you have to build your own.
$300 versus $3000 (average price of high end music streamer, often
without a server component)
$2,700
foxesden wrote:
> Any ideas why this might be? I had level matched before putting the
> thing in the chain and it must be 10 db louder - I mean it hurt.
Clutching at straws - something really bad was happening in the analogue
chain via the ground connection before the Intona thing isolated the
They made room for sonos.. that's all that exists really. Sad, but true.
It's more slick, less featured, and more expensive. Roon i dont know
much about, and intend to look at.
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Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP Microserver NAS with
Debian+LMS 7.9.0
Music: ~1300 CDs, as 450 GB
Julf wrote:
> Considering DSD might have been a good idea in the 90's, we might now
> let it rest in peace...
I don't really care one way or the other about DSD, I just like discrete
surround music and much of that is only available as DSD. It's on my
mind more at the moment because I'm ripping
Mnyb wrote:
> That's solvable for RG tags simply don't have them in these files that
> fixes it for LMS where you can turn of this completely.
Yes, in LMS it's not a problem at all. I use RG on PCM and not on DTS or
AC-3 and life is good. I was just commenting that I'd be irked if Roon
The big brand streamers make a big thing of the auto rip and tag, and
they make some effort to curate the results too. Cddb is one big
stinking mess, which is why they don't use it (not unedited anyway).
They also offer you the ability to edit/correct tags. They have thought
about it, for the
drmatt wrote:
> They made room for sonos.. and each established manufacturer's HDD based
> system. (Presumably all based off one supplier's chipsets and software
> underneath.) The slick UI and integration of ripping and archival into
> the stack helps make it a far more compelling option for
pablolie wrote:
> That is VERY cool. That is a major thing I miss with my library. I spent
> many hours scanning the album notes so I had as much info as possible,
> but of course picking the .PDFs is totally outside of LMS - it'd be
> awesome to be able to get the notes along the active
drmatt wrote:
> The big brand streamers make a big thing of the auto rip and tag, and
> they make some effort to curate the results too. Cddb is one big
> stinking mess, which is why they don't use it (not unedited anyway).
> They also offer you the ability to edit/correct tags. They have
pablolie wrote:
> ... Let me also state, I would so hope that, over the next years,
> someone picks up a next gen SB development... In my dreams, I envision
> an SB OLED Touch v2 that offers...
>
> - HDMI output to send liner notes to TV
And HDMI to output gapless 5.1 FLAC and DSD!
ralphpnj wrote:
> 1) is the replaygain defeatable since I don't use it nor do I intend to
> use it any time soon.
It would be a disaster for those of us with lots of DTS and AC-3 in our
libraries, too.
atrocity's
Well yeah. Bear in mind squeezebox touch was, what, £300 new on release?
That's hardly cheap. And that doesn't even come with a server component
you have to build your own.
--
Hardware: 3x Touch, 1x Radio, 2x Receivers, 1 HP Microserver NAS with
Debian+LMS 7.9.0
Music: ~1300 CDs, as 450 GB of
atrocity wrote:
> It would be a disaster for those of us with lots of DTS and AC-3 in our
> libraries, too.
That's solvable for RG tags simply don't have them in these files that
fixes it for LMS where you can turn of this completely.
I suppose you can in roon ,some of that crowd is very picky
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