DejanM wrote: > Do you have any plan how to proceed in the case when Squeezebox > hardware is not capable of supporting new server functions ? > . > . > .Are there any plans or ideas to build a new Squeezebox ?
It is very very hard not to lose money making Squeezebox hardware. There is a very small market for new Squeezebox only players and it is fragmented (e.g. Boom replacement, Touch replacement, high audio) Recent ESP-32 based software player (squeezelite-esp32) have enabled a few generic small manufacturers to develop and sell players, knowing all s/w is not their responsibility and so minimal support costs. The s/w also enables the player to be used as a Bluetooth and Airplay player - so they are not exclusively an SB player. Example of these new players include SqueezeAMP-32, Polyvection's DAC32 & Digi32, Raspiaudio ESPMUSE - Proto, Lux and Mn. Other s/w development such as Picoreplayer - enable more Raspberry Pi based players with various Audio hats. Raspberry Pi is a very economic platform with well supported h/w, cases, screens, audio and other accessories. UPNP/DLNA is a bad standard, no rigorous compatibility testing and was aimed at lowest common denominator. You only have to look at the UPNP plugin (or any UPNP servers implementation) to see how many tweaks are needed to support different players. It is a high support protocol - not good for community developed systems. > For compatibility reasons it would be interesting to see the full > integration with UPnP/DLNA. We have a plugin for that at the moment but > I believe that that support should be part of core LMS functionality. > Any plans to extend LMS in this direction ? LMS is a community development. There is no "one" person in charge of new developments. When a user/developer wants a new feature, they implement it and if successful/wanted - can be merged into release software. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=117052 _______________________________________________ Squeezecenter mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/squeezecenter
