Re: Soundbridge 1000 is in the house!

I beta test for ReplayTV for years, some of the Roku people should know 
to put me on their list ;-)

Hopefully the first reponse will be some setting you can tweak through 
the telnet interface or something to get DTS working ;-)

On Aug 9, 2004, at 2:50 PM, Ray Nugent (rnugent) wrote:

> 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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