Maximizing your digital music server can allow you to take full advantage of the technology. Why? Well, think about this. Digital music servers are a great way to store and enjoy all of your songs. Depending upon the size of the hard disc drive, you can record 10,000 ~ 30,000 of your favorite songs with the cover art, artist and album information, as well as the genre for each song.
But, with a traditional system, how many songs can you listen to at one time in different rooms of your home?
Well, the answer to that depends upon the number of discrete audio outputs on the music server, because each output must be connected to a multi-channel amplifier so that it can be routed to each room.
So we were thinking....there is a fundamental disconnect with what the technology can provide from a music server and how it is implemented with a traditional system today in the marketplace. Imagine this -- I can run multiple applications on my PC. Right now I've got my browser open, my email open, an .xls spreadsheet, and a press release from my VP of marketing open on my PC, not to mention several Microsoft word documents. All open. All running at the same time.
Since a digital music server is essentially a PC (it has a hard disc drive, a microprocessor, a CD-ROM drive for recording music, and an operating system), why not be able to listen to several songs in several rooms throughout the home?
And with a traditional installation, I need to turn on my TV to listen to my music coming from a music server, because I need to be able to select what I want to listen to. So that's another cable I have to hook up. When I explained all this to my daughter a year ago, the conversation was really funny, because she kept asking "But Dad, why do I have to turn on the TV to listen to music?"
Why indeed...
With our IP-Based DigiLinX products it can be done. We've partnered with some of the best digital music server companies in the marketplace - ReQuest (http://www.request.com/); Escient (http://www.escient.com/) and Imerge (http://www.imerge.co.uk/) and made them compatible with our solution. What does this mean -- well, with one CAT5 connection from the media server to our switch, I can listen to up to 6 separate songs (or "streams" of music, as we like to call them) in different rooms or groups of room s at a time. And I don't need to run a video cable because the menu to select the songs stored in the media server appear on any touch screen in the home.
Now that's progress.
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I was actively waiting for the release of your product a while back...and think this is the way to go. (IP based) the problem I have is in the implementation of the audio access... i.e. why would I want to use on of these music servers. All I should need is to point the device to a NAS device or large storage array.
I have build a 2 TB NAS (Network attached storage) for all of my media...audio has it's own directory. Buffalo storage has a nice 1 TB RAID NAS that for about $1000. The extra "stuff" ReQuest (and others) has should not be required in an all IP based system such as this.
Why are these over priced and tiny storage devices required to work with this system?
Thanks
Chris
You make an excellent point here. Technology doesn't limit the number of streams I can listen to, and why rely on analog?
Digital sounds a whole lot better, (especially when it's uncompressed).
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