In Reply to: OK, so it does TIDAL direcly... posted by Ivan303 on May 15, 2015 at 16:23:24:
It's a Squeezebox clone built on mostly (or entirely) off-the-shelf computer components, running a Linux distro and other open source software developed by contributors to the Squeezebox community. Expect it to do pretty much what a Squeezebox Touch can do, or do whatever the open source SqueezeLite player is capable.
If they really do have "custom" controller apps for Android and iOS, I have no doubt that they too are either closely derived from open source software or else licensed from one of the handful of developers of similar commercial apps.
Not that any of that is really a bad thing, and it's where the Squeezebox platform is naturally heading. Just that they appear to have put so little effort into it, just like all of the previous Auralic/SOTM products. How about a display? A touch interface? An IR remote? How about a small contribution to the open source software to make the server better? I doubt that you'll see any of those, and they will give ample excuses as to why none of them are good for you.
What they've put together is little more than a system that you could assemble from a Raspberry Pi for under $100 or an inexpensive Intel integrated motherboard for under $150.
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Follow Ups
- Ivan: Figure it out - J.Mac 23:35:35 05/15/15 (4)
- RE: "What they've put together is little more than a system that you could assemble from a Raspberry Pi.... - Ivan303 06:59:06 05/16/15 (0)
- Agree.... And I don't see where this "Crushes" the Touch at all !... It doesn't even equal it !....nt - Cut-Throat 06:18:09 05/16/15 (0)
- RE: Ivan: Figure it out - Dave_K 05:06:35 05/16/15 (1)
- RE: Ivan: Figure it out - Sprezza Tura 07:57:27 05/16/15 (0)