RE: Re: MusicLobby Pocket PC edition shipping

["Paul Gale" <groups@xxxxxxx>]

Are there any reasons to go for Media Centre over Media Jukebox if I'm
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alling on a server and not using the picture/video features etc?

Paul.=20

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-----Original Message-----
From: keyvan2r [mailto:keyvan@xxxxxxx]=20
Sent: 28 August 2003 18:00
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: [ukha_d] Re: MusicLobby Pocket PC edition shipping

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Paul:

I will be doing some side by side trials of Vinyl & MusicLobby ppc=20
tonight and will post results.


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> I didn't know you were developing this :-)  I'm currently using=20
Vinyl from PocketWerks - I presume you evaluated this?
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I use Vinyl and like it very much(I was a beta tester for them). It=20
is quick, good value, and does the job well. But given that I have=20
opted for the Cinemar stuff on all platforms I will be using the ppc=20
version of MusicLobby - mario & dan have a version of MainLobby out=20
soon for ppc. In conjunction with Dan's ML server this is going be=20
one hell of family of products.=20=20
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> I quite like Vinyl but their support and response to customer=20
requests is appalling :-( With your great service, your new product=20
is very tempting. However, before I ditch Vinyl I'd like to know a=20
bit more about MusicLobby PPC.

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> 1.      Do you have a trial version available?=20
???
> 2.      Does it work along side MusicLobby (so you can control the=20
music from multiple sources - PPC, HTPC, touchscreen etc)?
Yes. I have Musiclobby on 4 clients around the house (a couple on a=20
CTX 15" lcd touch (not bad at =A3380) and they all work very well=20
indeed.
> 3.      Will it be able to control multiple zones (i.e. separate=20
software running on multiple sound cards)?
This facility is part of MC9 (the big brother of MJ8 from JRiver).=20
The multizone is fine, but there is a caveat (down to MC9 not MuL)=20
whereby if you switch focus on zones from a MuL client, or MC9 for=20
that matter, then the view on ALL Mul clients changes to that zone -=20
playback is not affected - alos there is no facility (yet) to lock-
down a zone so other clients don't mess with it while it is palying.

> 4.      My music collection stands at 50,000 MP3's !!! (220Gb)
Vinyl=20
handles this well and quickly - what's the performance of MusicLobby=20
like?

I only have around 8,000 tracks (all on WMP9 lossless codec -=20
360Gb!!) - I have no response problems at all - that said, Vinyl is=20
FAST due to the metafile database which is spooled to RAM.
> 5.      Is there a search facility (Vinyl does not have this and=20
this is a big problem)?
There is one on the desktop MuL (with a neat little drop-down mini-
keyboard for touch display - I don't know if the PPC has same.
> 6.      My HA server runs W2K Server - exactly what software needs=20
to run on this and is it compatible?
All you need is MC9 or MJ8 on your server (compatible with all Win=20
OS) and the server plugin for MusicLobby which comes with MusicLobby.
> 7.      Very exciting :-)
I really like their stuff; Mario, Dan and the rest of the guy on the=20
forums are ver very helpful - as you know both respond to=20
questions/problems very swiftly (sometimes instantly !!)and are real=20
HA / HT freaks!!!
> Paul

The following threads are worth looking into:
This one will fold!!
http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?
s=3D&threadid=3D280946&perpage=3D20&pagenumber=3D16
or
http://www.caseserve.com/cinemar/phpBB2/index.php

Hope this helps.

Keyvan R

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: keyvan2r [mailto:keyvan@e...]=20
> Sent: 28 August 2003 17:02
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: [ukha_d] MusicLobby Pocket PC edition shipping
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> Some of you may have been following the Lobby suite from Cinemar=20
> (MainLobby, MusicLobby, etc.).
> Mario and Dan have just released the pocket pc version of=20
MusicLobby=20
> which works in conjunction with Media Center 9 from J River.
> I have the full suite - inc. a beta (very stable) version of=20
> MLserver which allows very easy client/server management &
control=20
> of all Lobby products (as well as many plugins for X10, Matrix=20
> Orbital, homeseer (coming soon) as well as load of other supported=20
> windows commands, and of course brilliant Girder plug-in.
> I have just replaced one of my Crestron touch-screen's with a=20
> shuttle pc and a CTX 15" touch lcd, the look is visually
stunning=20
> and it all works fine (working with a Slinke). Also have it=20
working=20
> off a smart display (10" airpanel) it looks really good.
> Anyway here is the link to the cinemar web site:
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> http://www.cinemaronline.com/index.html
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> I am sure Mario will do press release to Mark for inclusion on the=20
> site.
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