Computer Audio Asylum

Without the computer hardware as well though

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In Reply to: RE: Pretty sure that the playback software needs to be loaded posted by AbeCollins on June 17, 2015 at 15:57:26

I see your point regarding the ability to a run stripped down version of Linux....

But I also so much hardware gone from these boxes... USB bus, (Even the Rasberry Pi has 3 USB ports. (and we've seen the great amount of work that it would take to use a rasberry pi as even a browser). No video card, or port, no PCI, no RAM slots, some have no HD bus, etc. etc. The "layman" isn't going to call a Roku a computer, a rasberry Pi a computer, a typical NAS drive a computer, or their microwave, etc.

What this is a way for people to illogically dismiss the efforts of high end manufacturers to re-design file playback devices with the principles of high performance audio, instead of many different software functions.

Being in computer maintenance and IT infrastructure for 26 years: I've seen a lot of variances in hardware design and function.

"Asylums with doors open wide,
Where people had paid to see inside,
For entertainment they watch his body twist
Behind his eyes he says, 'I still exist.'"

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