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What's the distinction between what you're proposing and Squeezebox (formerly slimp3)? http://www.logitechsqueezebox.com/ http://www.logitechsqueezebox.com/ T
by mturmon 17y ago
What's the distinction between what you're proposing and Squeezebox (formerly slimp3)?
http://www.logitechsqueezebox.com/ http://www.logitechsqueezebox.com/
Their low-end product is a table radio at $150 street price.
- sfraser 17y agoI had the same thought - also note that the software powering the Squeezebox server AND the devices is open source! In fact they just flipped the player software (written in LUA) over to BSD, here's the commit: http://svn.slimdevices.com/jive?view=revision&revision=8348 http://svn.slimdevices.com/jive?view=revision&revision=8... You can download nightly builds here: http://downloads.slimdevices.com/nightly/?ver=7.5 http://downloads.slimdevices.com/nightly/?ver=7.5 Backend is perl, and is GPL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squeezebox_Server http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squeezebox_Server The player software is written in LUA and runs well on OSX and OK on Linux (I am running the nightlies). I have found the hardware players to be quite nice, and with iPeng on my iPhone I can control everything from anywhere: http://penguinlovesmusic.de/ipeng-the-iphone-skin-for-squeezecenter/ http://penguinlovesmusic.de/ipeng-the-iphone-skin-for-squeez...
- mturmon 17y agoI've also had an excellent experience with 3 versions of their hardware (slimp3, squeezebox2, radio). Another pointer with a HN resonance is (note the beer bottle): http://gigaom.com/2006/09/07/portrait-of-a-startup-slim-devices/ http://gigaom.com/2006/09/07/portrait-of-a-startup-slim-devi... Of course they sold to Logitech some time ago: http://gigaom.com/2006/10/18/slim-devices/ http://gigaom.com/2006/10/18/slim-devices/