If one have actual irl friends in meatspace teoretically *they* could
come over with iThings full of music, thats the idea :)
You could advice them beforehand to bring USB drives with files
instead...
That you carefully tag for 3 hours before anything sounds from the
system ;)
So the idea is go
iPhone;586222 Wrote:
> Who wants to listen to lo-res music? Think about where the files for an
> iPod or iPhone came from. That's right, from a PC, your iTunes account
> (PC again), or something that was ripped to MP3. So if you already have
> them, why not just stream them with SBS, Doh. This So
ericj;586159 Wrote:
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> Will Logitech introduce something similar?
The Squeezebox design has never been able to stream arbitrary music
sources. Despite the open source background and plugin extensibility,
the core capabilities remain rather inflexible.
By all appearances Logitech looks like t
ericj;586159 Wrote:
> I doubt that I would be a purchaser, but I'm surprised that there has
> been no conversation about the Sonos Wireless Dock. I suspect it will
> move a lot of product for them. See:
>
>
> http://www.engadget.com/2010/10/26/sonos-wireless-dock-for-ipod-and-iphone-is-out-n
It does not need a jailbroken iDevice. Should work out of the box on any
iPod / iPhone that has a dock connector.
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My mistake, of course it will stream at the original encoding, I was
just assuming that most ithings contain low bit-rate mp3s and the like.
My bad.
Interesting Nikhil, that they use the iPhone as a wireless drive. Is
that possible on a non-jailbroken iphone?That raised the
possibility that on
It's really just using the iPod like a wireless hard drive via Sonos'
wifi mesh network, and allowing access of the contents through the
normal Sonos controllers. I can see it being quite useful at parties
when people come over with iPods and want to play it through your
system. It does not use Ap
ericj;586159 Wrote:
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> I suspect it uses airplay to stream, and is of limited quality, BUT, I
> suspect for many the convenience factor will be significant.
>
I understood that they where using digital only in original resolution?
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I doubt that I would be a purchaser, but I'm surprised that there has
been no conversation about the Sonos Wireless Dock. I suspect it will
move a lot of product for them. See:
http://www.engadget.com/2010/10/26/sonos-wireless-dock-for-ipod-and-iphone-is-out-now-for-119/
I suspect it uses ai
