geobrick wrote: > So it's pretty much what I expected. The touch would be in place of the > PC I have hooked up to the receiver. I admit using a Windows 7 PC as a > music player overkill in most cases but in my case, the PC is part of > the entertainment system (running windows Media Center using a 'silicon > dust Home Run' with a cable card) so it's already hooked up to my > receiver. It was simple to just add squeezeplay and the LMS and suddenly > I had a whole house system that can synchronize to other PCs and the > squeeze box radio I bought about a month ago. The whole > squeezebox/slimdevices system is great. I wish I discovered it sooner > but I think it will all still function for at least a few more years > maybe longer. I may still want to buy the touch for future needs but the > replies posted here show that I'm not missing any capability with my > current setup. > > As far as being limited to the PC's sound card, that's true but in my > case, I'm using the digital output so it relies on the receivers DAC > which is nothing audiophile-exotic but it's pretty good (It's built in > to a pioneer AV Receiver).
you got that a hardware squeezebox is typically used when the server is somewhere else (thatÂ’s the whole point ) . Do you got any iPhone or android app to control your softplayer ? Turning on the TV to control music is a bit awkward imo . There are some streaming service that are only supported on a real squeezebox . Depending on squeezeplay version it could be issues with hirez files >24/48 and possibly with bit-perfectness ,but as you have a media server you probably know all about getting bitperfect output wo having the OS re-sampling or otherwise interfere . Thats the soundqulity issue that a hardware squeezebox bypasses, sometimes the OS does "things" to the sound on old XP you had to avoid the "kernel mixer" and use ASAPI or kernel streaming . As a hardware squeezebox "just works" independent of the host servers audio system (hardware or software) you don't have to bother , example I don't think i have any working sound on my HP microserver that is my server. Ralphy have released . SqueezePlay for Windows with ASIO, DirectSound, WASAPI and WDMKS device support. This may further amend any differences that could theoretically be there. http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?96573-SqueezePlay-for-Windows-with-ASIO-DirectSound-WASAPI-and-WDMKS-device-support ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=96578
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