Re: updated soundbridge info; itunes integration

We don't have the capability in 1.0, but we'll definitely explore it for a
later release.  I have my music on a G4 with four drives, so I'd love for it
to go to sleep as well.

--Mike




> 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
> 
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