adamdea wrote: > > Sorry if this is a dumb question, but is this essentially a > squeezelite-based player with a dac, inteded to work with LMS running > somewhere else (ie an SBT replacement) , or is it intended to run the > music server software itself, or to work with non LMS software?
It is primarily a Squeezebox replacement. That's the reason for its existence. It's an "out of the box player". Pre-built, complete with power supply, wi-fi dongle..... Plug it in, and off you go. Nothing to build, solder, or tinker with. (Which is not to say that someone couldn't run a xmbc based distro on it, of course they can. You'll need a kernel compiled with the sound card drivers, but those will be available under the GPL and free for anyone to include in their distro, whether that be Steen or someone else producing a xbmc distro.) I personally don't feel that the Pi has the horsepower for being an LMS server as well as music playing client. However, and although the RPM's containing the necessary software will not ship with the default Pidora based image to enable server functionality, they will be available via a community repo and one click away from being installed. I rather hope that users who do not want to run the "full fat" OS will have a "light" option with Steen's ramdisk based image. As far as I know that does not come with LMS. So it's going to be a choice for users to make. Run the "official" OS or pico or maybe even something completely different. Everything has up as well as downsides. It has been designed for sound quality. I know where it stands on that front having had the chance to compare it to most of the other Pi based DAC solutions out there. (And much else besides.) If I start talking it up on that front, I'm sure to be accused of marketing. The users who have got them already, have signed an NDA, which they will need to be released from before they can start talking about it. That is not going to happen before next week. My reason for posting to this thread, (and that has been achieved having just read a PM from Steen), was to try and get this hardware supported by a community OS. That has been achieved. Not to convince a bunch of you to dig deep into your pockets, before it has even been launched..... ;) Anyway, it is not fair me continuing any conversation relating to this in Steen's pico thread. I'll pop back in next week, when I am free to say more, and point you to a forum where you can discuss it, if you want to, ask questions of exisiting users, etc. etc. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JackOfAll's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3069 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=97803 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
