It’s not quite as smooth as Airfoil, but it works pretty well. With Nicecast, users can create a local MP3 stream, which these devices can then tune in to. Now, what about Pandora and other Internet music services for which the SoundBridge Radio doesn’t have built-in support? As I mentioned in my prior post, I’d heard that Rogue Amoeba’s Nicecast code could bridge the gap, and an email to company CEO Paul Kafasis provoked an encouraging response: And as you can see from the above screenshots, ReadyDLNA and the NAS200’s media server, unlike Squeezebox Server, both enable me to enter multiple share directories for sorting purposes. However, I have a duplicate copy of my music library housed on the NAS200, and its media server works as I intend, providing me with an album’s worth of tracks in their on-CD original order, after I select first the artist and then the album. However, some clients (PS3 for one) like to reorder the list themselves, and there’s no way we can control that. If he’s browsing playlists and the client doesn’t request a sort order, then the playlist will be presented to the client in the order inside the playlist file. If the client does not request a sort order, then it will be unsorted according to the spec. And I’ve already uncovered one glitch with ReadyDLNA it sorts tracks alphabetically, ignoring the embedded track number tag, for reasons that my NETGEAR contacts claim are “by design”:įor DLNA, the client requests the sort order, and we do support sorting by track number. Accessing my content via the Squeezebox Server intermediary on the SoundBridge Radio has the same tag-and-sort limitations as I’ve already documented regarding the Squeezebox Boom. The NETGEAR-branded ReadyDLNA server built into my ReadyNAS NV+:Īnd, ironically, the SlimServer (aka Squeezebox Server) which I’d earlier installed to the ReadyNAS NV+, Roku’s support thanks to Squeezebox Server’s open source nature. That’s also true once I pointed the Audiotron at a network server share over SMB, it would index and build a local database of that share’s content…which worked great until the Audiotron lost power (it’d subsequently need to rebuilt the database, which in my case was a time-consuming task) or ran out of local memory (which I almost encountered my ripped-CD library wasn’t quite big enough). I also mentioned that my long-beloved, no-longer-owned Voyetra Turtle Beach Audiotron also supported SMB. In my recent Boxee Box review, I mentioned that the device contained integrated support for the SMB protocol. Admittedly frustrated with the delay, I decided last night to fire up my Roku R1000 SoundBridge Radio instead:īefore continuing, and with a bit of chagrin, I offer an editorial correction. As followup to Monday night’s post, I haven’t yet heard back from Logitech technical support with any tangible assistance regarding my various Squeezebox Server issues, only an interim ’stay tuned I’m working on it’ email response from my PR contact (I’m having better luck, though not yet an ultimate resolution, via the Squeezebox Community Forums).
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |