Old Soundbridge - New Soundbridge
Peter Gutbrod <[email protected]> Mon, 19 Jul 2004 10:16:50 +0200
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.hardware.roku.technical |
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| Message-ID | <BD215012.2F8F6%[email protected]> |
I'm a little bit confused, what exactly has changed in Soundbridge's ability to play songs from the iTunes library after that license agreement with Apple In the SoundBridge_SpecSheet.pdf from Jan 28th you advertise: ... Supports wired Ethernet or Wi-Fi network cards. Native iTunes ®support. In the update information from July 1st you say: ... enables us to use iTunes as a streaming music server for SoundBridge. This means there will be no need to install additional software on your PC or Mac in order to play your iTunes music library. So before the license agreement with Apple to play iTunes songs you had to have iTunes running plus an additional software ( Roku control panel ?). Now you only need iTunes running somewhere on the LAN, correct? But you can't search/select songs in iTunes to play on the Soundbridge like you can with Airport Express, correct? So there is no improvement in controlling the Soundbrigde from your computer. If you want to create a playlist with different Albums/Artists that need some advanced searching and you want to do these selections on your big Powerbook screen instead of the tiny Soundbridge display, you must do this with a 2 step approach in iTunes (i.e. creating a playlist first to load into Soundbridge afterwards) or use the Roku control panel (if still supplied), correct? >the product has changed somewhat from the published specs, which we believe represents a great improvement. Yes it is an improvement to work with iTunes without any additional software, but is it really such a GREAT improvement for daily use? You still have to make sure, iTunes is running somewhere on the network, so it is not much more effort to make sure another app is running. You could start/stop both with an AppleScript f.e. Probably I missed something, so can someone please enlighten me? Peter Gutbrod