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In Reply to: RE: +1 .......................nt posted by Cut-Throat on August 27, 2015 at 13:58:21
Could you imagine how far along the Computer audio segment would have been if Logitech would have either continued to develop or sell it to some company to carry the torch.
Just a few OS tweaks and a better power supply would have easily put the SBT at the top of any class of streamers.
Its almost as if Logitech gave the industry mercy and stopped selling the SBT so they could try to fill the gap and make money.
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Music is the Bridge between Heaven and Earth - 音楽は天国と地球のかけ橋
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There's nothing to sell. Logitech only owned the name, which they basically abanddoned when renamed everything "Logitech". The software itself is licensed under the GPL, so it's free and open source software and forever will be. If it wasn't, it would have died along with the hardware.
Just a few OS tweaks and a better power supply would have easily put the SBT at the top of any class of streamers.
While others may reasonably agree, I find the streamer-sourced-from server-approach most elegant. In my case the "server" is my general purpose desktop located in the downstairs office that performs a wide range of duties other than decoding FLAC streams and housing the music library. I've tweaked LMS to have high run priority and a large buffer space since it is a 12 GB box, but otherwise I haven't found the need to do anything else with it. It is also where CDs are ripped and converted to FLAC. I would really rather not have to constantly be updating a separate drive or USB stick(s) to supply the data to the streamers. Especially since my iPad doesn't support either, but can access the LMS server.
Distantly located upstairs via ethernet or wirelessly elsewhere, the streamers are compact devices that are individually optimized and dedicated for musical playback. As you suggest, I use a linear power supply with my Touch.
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