Re: SoundBridge M2000 and SlimServer

On Jul 24, 2004, at 3:02 PM, Greg Friedman wrote:

> For what it's worth, I can't help feeling a bit let down by this  
> embracement
> of iTunes. iTunes may be an interesting app to run on a desktop  
> machine, but
> many of us early adopters have headless media servers running some  
> variant
> of Windows and a dependency on a GUI-driven app like iTunes just  
> doesn't fit
> into our worlds. The Audiotron's use of SMB and SlimServer's  
> capability of
> running as a server are both reasonable solutions. I'm hoping that you  
> guys
> see this and are planning to spend the resources to maintain your  
> SlimServer
> support and make it work as well as possible given the limitations of  
> the
> SlimServer architecture.

greg,

not sure if this will help you out, but there are other daap-compatible  
servers out there besides itunes. check out daapd[1]and mt-daapd[2].  
they are of course written for un*x, so not much help for a machine  
running windows, but someone has ported daap for windows[3].

i haven't tried them yet, but i am *very* interested in replacing a  
server running smb/nfs/appletalk with just one protocol: daap. of  
course, the clients have to be capable of talking daap, but the current  
favorite (itunes) has no problems with that. <g> plus, there are other  
daap clients out there[4]. granted, they aren't all that pretty, but  
there is work being done.

personally, i find a daap client/server setup much more appealing than  
a file-system sharing based setup. for one, it works better over slow  
links: the server can read and parse the media files faster than a  
client over an 802.11b connection.

anyway, just some food for thought... :)

[1] http://www.deleet.de/projekte/daap/daapd/
[2] http://sourceforge.net/projects/mt-daapd/
[3]  
http://www.rustydust.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl? 
action=browse&diff=1&id=WinDaapd
[4] http://sourceforge.net/projects/jtunes4/  (there are others)


-justin
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