Re: [slim] Will it ever be possible... ?

2011-08-27 Thread Meridion
Phil Leigh;653050 Wrote: There are lots of new devices from other manufacturers (e.g. MF Clic, Linn DS) that I'd love to just plug in to my existing SB setup. I would love to do that, too! If I had to switch to DLNA iwould most probably miss Trackstat's rating extensions, dynamic playlists,

Re: [slim] Will it ever be possible... ?

2011-08-27 Thread JJZolx
Phil Leigh;653050 Wrote: It would be neat if Logitech would licence SlimProto to other hardware vendors... or even better, if someone were to write an adapter (and I use that term very loosely) that would allow other hardware to emulate a SlimProto-device. Would the protocol require a

Re: [slim] Will it ever be possible... ?

2011-08-27 Thread bpa
Roku implemented the slimproto without a license and I think there have been other clients for other hardware such as Chumby and mclient with MediaMVP box. The problem has been the 3rd party hardware vendor has to play catch up with Logitech as slimproto gets tweaked in different versions. This

Re: [slim] Will it ever be possible... ?

2011-08-27 Thread Mnyb
bpa;653281 Wrote: Roku implemented the slimproto without a license and I think there have been other clients for other hardware such as Chumby and mclient with MediaMVP box. The problem has been the 3rd party hardware vendor has to play catch up with Logitech as slimproto gets tweaked in

Re: [slim] Will it ever be possible... ?

2011-08-27 Thread toby10
Would Sync even be possible with DLNA hardware? If yes, would it be reliable/accurate? -- toby10 toby10's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=12553 View this thread:

Re: [slim] Will it ever be possible... ?

2011-08-27 Thread Mnyb
toby10;653295 Wrote: Would Sync even be possible with DLNA hardware? If yes, would it be reliable/accurate? I sync is one thing that differentiates Squeezeboxes and Sonos from the dlna bunch. -- Mnyb Main hifi: Touch +

Re: [slim] Will it ever be possible... ?

2011-08-27 Thread bpa
toby10;653295 Wrote: Would Sync even be possible with DLNA hardware? If yes, would it be reliable/accurate? No. IIRC UPNP (of which DLNA is a subset) only supports the player to select, setup and start an audio stream. If two players were to be in sync then the two player would have to

Re: [slim] Will it ever be possible... ?

2011-08-27 Thread sebp
bpa;653300 Wrote: No. IIRC UPNP (of which DLNA is a subset) only supports the player to select, setup and start an audio stream. If two players were to be in sync then the two player would have to communicate with each other with a proprietary protocol and arrange sync between themselves

[slim] Will it ever be possible... ?

2011-08-26 Thread Phil Leigh
...For a DLNA-capable hardware client / player to connect to SBS in the same way that SB hardware does? - by which I mean, it would be able to be controlled via (say) iPeng or the Web UI and take advantage of the SBS infrastructure such as server-side transcoding? -- Phil Leigh You want to

Re: [slim] Will it ever be possible... ?

2011-08-26 Thread pippin
No. -- pippin --- see iPeng, the Squeezebox iPhone remote and *New: iPeng for iPad*, at penguinlovesmusic.com pippin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13777 View this thread:

Re: [slim] Will it ever be possible... ?

2011-08-26 Thread Phil Leigh
pippin;653033 Wrote: No. At least if you are talking about players that are ONLY capable of DLNA. What would a player need? SlimProto support? -- Phil Leigh You want to see the signal path BEFORE it gets onto a CD/vinyl...it ain't what you'd call minimal... Touch(wired/XP) - Audiolense

Re: [slim] Will it ever be possible... ?

2011-08-26 Thread pippin
yes. -- pippin --- see iPeng, the Squeezebox iPhone remote and *New: iPeng for iPad*, at penguinlovesmusic.com pippin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13777 View this thread:

Re: [slim] Will it ever be possible... ?

2011-08-26 Thread Phil Leigh
It would be neat if Logitech would licence SlimProto to other hardware vendors... or even better, if someone were to write an adapter (and I use that term very loosely) that would allow other hardware to emulate a SlimProto-device. Just a pipedream. It's just that I don't see any post-Touch

Re: [slim] Will it ever be possible... ?

2011-08-26 Thread sebp
Phil Leigh;653050 Wrote: There are lots of new devices from other manufacturers (e.g. MF Clic, Linn DS) that I'd love to just plug in to my existing SB setup. Someone at Linn had developped a plugin bridging the DS with SqueezeCenter, IIRC. -- sebp 'Last.fm' (http://www.last.fm/user/sebp)