Re: Old Soundbridge - New Soundbridge

//Anthony,
//
//Have I misstepped?
//I recently purchased the HD1000 thinking I could stream audio
//to it and now see that a server of some sort is needed.

The HD1000 does not require any server software be installed on your
computer.
It does require Windows file sharing to be enabled and one or more folders
be
shared.  Windows file sharing is included on Windows, Mac OSX and most linux
installations.  Is that the server to which you were referring?

---I'm aware of and using the HD1K with Windows file sharing.
---As you are aware, prob is I rarely want to limit music to that which
---exists in a single folder and I want all that mixing flexibility everyone
talks about.
---The HDTV output hooked me, so I bought the HD1K thinking that server side
---app for interfacing to various juke boxes might be available from Roku
(even if restricted to my local mp3s),
---and if not, that it might come to be availble in near future.  Sounds
like iTunes is it, eh?

---BTW, this situation doesn't hamper my very positive impression of the
product.
---I just had a bit more flexibility in mind from server side.

//I recently became aware of the SlimServer and am now reading
//about iTunes with the SoundBridge.  What are plans for HD1000
//relative to this same issue?

Our plans definitely include improving the music player on the HD1000 and
bringing it into parity with the abilities of the SoundBridge.  This
includes
adding support for additional servers and adding support for additional
music
formats.  How and when this will exactly take place is still TBD (although
we do
plan to add additional format support into 1.6, afaik)

---Am overseer of a prod dev group (another industry) and aware of time to
market challenges.
---I was recently given the date of Juvember by one of my guys.


//FYI, I subscribe to MusicMatch and am not sure if their
//player can act as a server in same general fashion as iTunes,
//but am very interested in the possibility.  Are you familiar
//with this product and how it might someday interface with
//Roku technology?

We're pretty familiar with MusicMatch and its server.  The server is an
implementation of the UPnP Media Server.  Unfortunately, it is a pretty
spartan
implementation of the spec and doesn't implement many of of the more
interesting
optional features, including searching.  What this means is that if we did
support MusicMatch (via UPnP), it wouldn't feature many of the features that
we
have in the SoundBridge's iTunes client.

--- Sounds like focus is on iTunes and I should check it out.
--- Therefore will likely be keen on hearing insight realted to
--- HD1K support for iTunes as it comes clear.

Thanks for prompt feedback,
B
 ------
 Patrick Ellis
 Senior Software Engineer, Roku
 Get more out of your high-def TV.
 High-definition photos, art, music and more. http://www.rokulabs.com

_______________________________________________
Roku-tech mailing list
[email protected]
http://lists.rokulabs.com/mailman/listinfo/roku-tech