adamdea wrote: > At the moment the future looks a bit bleak for a squeezebox replacement, > although raspberry pi semi DIY solutions proliferate.
I'm not so sure. I know about several commercial products coming out next years which will target this market. Doing something in between a commercial solution and a complete DIY is difficult due to all the license issues involved and I believe a lot of what we are seeing around the various community projects here has to do with this. Hardware is hard and so is the whole patent and license environment around audio. For a commercial project it's easier because you can just buy licenses and include them in the price of a product but doing something like a fully working non-commercial distribution that you can run on a standard platform is not. And there's a lot of work to get things user friendly and then to support users, something that's hard to do in free time so I'm highly skeptical of anything proposing something that's not entirely DIY and not completely commercial, you get caught between a rock and and a hard place but doing commercial projects can actually work. We will see some of this. Hopefully someone of those looking into this will also help out with this project or it's results. --- learn more about iPeng, the iPhone and iPad remote for the Squeezebox and Logitech UE Smart Radio as well as iPeng Party, the free Party-App, at penguinlovesmusic.com *New: iPeng 8, the Universal App for iOS 7 and iOS 8* ------------------------------------------------------------------------ pippin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13777 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=102377 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
