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RE: [ukha_d] How to spend £5,000


  • Subject: RE: [ukha_d] How to spend £5,000
  • From: "Kevin Hawkins" <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 18:09:32 +0100

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Phil Harris [mailto:phil@xxxxxxx]=20
> Sent: 11 May 2004 16:08
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] How to spend =A35,000
>=20
>=20
> > > Audio is easy. Go with the Squeezebox (wireless SliMP3) and
a=20
> > > decentish PC (big hard drive) as an MP3 server. Not only is
> > the music
> > > replay reasonable, but the display is clear, and=20
> addressable by xAP=20
> > > (and I'm pretty sure xPL?
> > > Ian - can you confirm?) so can display other kinds of info.
> >=20
> > There's built in xPL support on any recent version of=20
> the Slim Server.
>=20
> Wasn't xPL support included by the manufacturers - Slim=20
> Devices - themselves?

Not quite but effectively true - AFAIK it wasn't written by SlimDevices but
by the xPL team & it was merged with the open source development system
tha=
t
they use so it is in the released application. AFAIK it is very stable. The
xAP version has some different features that make it well suited to display
management eg true queuing of messages handled over multiple players - so
that one message doesn=92t overwrite another for example.

K




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