Re: networked mp3 players

[Ho Yin Ng <yahoogroups@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Interesting .. thanks Steven!

Shall keep my eye on it ..

But it does say on the website that it is native itunes compatible!

In fact they go on about the Mac more than the PC.

Guess we shall just have to wait and see.

Regards,

Ho Yin

At 18:17 19/02/2004, you wrote:
>There was a comment about this on the slimp3 mailing list a few days
back. It
>appears that Roku have pinched the source from Slimp3, which is fine as
it is
>open source, but are refusing to acknowledge that this is where it came
from.
>Other complaints are that they have not returned their modifications,
which
>given the software is licensed under the GPL is a violation of the
license.
>They have also somehow managed to turn a cross-platform compatible
piece of
>software into windows-only (although I note from their site they say
Mac
>too).
>
>Some of the original discussion can be found below
>
><http://lists.slimdevices.com/archives/discuss/2004-February/025440.html>http://lists.slimdevices.com/archives/discuss/2004-February/025440.html
>
>Personally I'd wait and see whether Roku acknowledge their legal and
moral
>obligations and join in with the community development process before
giving
>them any of my money. To date it appears they are very non-responsive
in this
>regard, but at this point I'm giving them the benefit of the doubt
since the
>product isn't actually on the market yet and their organisation may
just be
>getting up to speed.
>
>
>Steven
>
>
>
>On Thursday 19 February 2004 13:19, Ho Yin Ng wrote:
> > Just about to put my money down for the Squeezebox networked
music player.
> >
> > But I have just come across the Roku Soundbridge!
> >
> > Has anyone used one or heard anything about it?
> >
> > It seems it can play AAC and Ogg as well!!!
> >
> > Oh but a quick surf on their website shows that actually it is
not out yet
> > . only pre orders.
> >
> > But it supports the slimserver software as well ..
> >
> > It looks about 10 times better than the squeezebox!!!
> >
> > Humm maybe i should hold fire .. and get this instead?
> >
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