Re: updated soundbridge info; itunes integration

I have been wrestling with the desire to have my music on a NAS,
but find that most devices like the Soundbridge and Linksys Wireless
Music-B require a server applet.  And of course iTunes and
Musicmatch Jukebox do offer all the benefits of music library
management.  If I go the dedicated PC route for my music library,
I would love to have the system go to a powered down state until
such time as someone wants to listen to music.  If it is possible to
have the Soundbridge wake up a dedicated music server PC with
a Wake-On-Lan signal, please let me know as that will help me
with my decision.

If anyone knows of apps like 'launchTunes' for the PC world,
please point me in their direction.
Fred

Peter Gutbrod wrote:

> Now that it looks, Roku has chosen iTunes as the streaming server of choice
> for Soundbridge, there is still the problem, that you must have a Mac/PC
> running iTunes to access your music library. Do you all have your computer
> running 24 hours a day? I don't! So I still have to wake my Mac manually and
> launch iTunes, when I want to listen to music with Soundbridge.
>
> There is a shareware app called launchTunes available at
> http://www.shirt-pocket.com (I'm not affiliated with them in any way)
>
> It remotely starts iTunes on all your computers whenever you launch iTunes
> on your master Mac. Combined that with a WOL signal could enable Soundbridge
> to start up the requested music server, in case it isn't running already.
>
> Please Roku could you add something like this into the boot sequence of
> Soundbridge? Probably just integrating the launchTunes client with added WOL
> functionality into Soundbridge, so the shirt-pocket people could still make
> their money with the server apps.
>
> Would make the product much more useful for daily use.
>
> Regards
>
> Peter Gutbrod