Re: Soundbridge 1000 is in the house!

You'd think they would beta these things with members of this list...

At 02:43 PM 8/9/2004 -0500, you wrote:
>First flaw.  It apparently can't pass ripped DTS music!  That means the 
>AIFF files are being altered somehow before being passed through the 
>optical output.  I presume that is related to the volume control being 
>functional.  I would like a passthrough mode for AIFF files where the 
>volume control is not active and DTS data can make it through 
>unaltered.  (The Airport Express does this just fine).
>
>I keep getting caught up having to select a playlist instead of just 
>pressing play when over it.  I think the play button should work when a 
>playlist name is highlighted, especially if shuffle is active so you can 
>start at a random song.  As it is, we have the same problem we have with 
>the roku where you have to dig into the playlist and choose the starting 
>song before it will start shuffling.
>
>You can't even press play when a song title is highlighted, you have to 
>select it again. And choose "Play playlist starting with".
>
>Other than that, I'm still in awe, watching the flashing blue lights.
>
>On Aug 9, 2004, at 2:19 PM, Steve Martin wrote:
>
>>I guess I'm the first to post!
>>
>>Hookup was easy.  iTunes server showed up right away.
>>
>>The first two times I tried to access a playlist, it mysteriously failed. 
>>(I figured there was a size limit I had exceeded or something as the 
>>playlists were very long).  But, later it laoded it just fine.
>>
>>Playing like a champ.
>>
>>The little one squeezes in very nicely under my center speaker on top of 
>>the TV, the 2000 would have been too big for that spot.
>>
>>Only one thing missing, Apple Lossless.
>>
>>I notice that iTunes creates its Apple Lossless files with the .m4a 
>>extension which would indicate they are MPEG4 Audio files.  Are they just 
>>using some published spec?  Hint hint...
>>
>>
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