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Should I Buy This?
« on: November 02, 2009, 07:18:59 PM »
Tempatation, but I don't see FLAC support, dag-nabbit!

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Re: Should I Buy This?
« Reply #1 on: November 02, 2009, 07:41:46 PM »
ive seen 2 of these go bad via my work.  ...the only 2 ive seen.
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Re: Should I Buy This?
« Reply #2 on: November 03, 2009, 12:33:24 PM »
??? From everything I've seen, it does support flac (including the info from the newegg link you provided).

Too bad about Jim's reliability reports.  It looks interesting.  Seems like the new upgraded version, WD TV Live, supports an ethernet connection, including a connection to a wireless ethernet hub.  Looks like it could be a cheaper solution than the squeezebox if you have a tv close by and don't mind using your tv as your music interface.

Anyway, I don't know that I'd want it for audio files since I already have a squeezebox, but it does have me wondering about using it for HT video.  :hmmm:
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Re: Should I Buy This?
« Reply #3 on: November 03, 2009, 12:44:06 PM »
keep in mind i generally show up when something is broken....so i might represent the bad side of the statistics.
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Re: Should I Buy This?
« Reply #4 on: November 03, 2009, 06:23:27 PM »
keep in mind i generally show up when something is broken....so i might represent the bad side of the statistics.

Same here, aside from my personal gear

I would need FLAC to make it worthwhile
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Re: Should I Buy This?
« Reply #5 on: November 03, 2009, 06:46:38 PM »

I would need FLAC to make it worthwhile

You keep coming back to this.  Could you please explain what is missing?  Everything I read on this thing says it has FLAC support. 
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Re: Should I Buy This?
« Reply #6 on: November 03, 2009, 08:11:01 PM »
??? From everything I've seen, it does support flac (including the info from the newegg link you provided).

Too bad about Jim's reliability reports.  It looks interesting.  Seems like the new upgraded version, WD TV Live, supports an ethernet connection, including a connection to a wireless ethernet hub.  Looks like it could be a cheaper solution than the squeezebox if you have a tv close by and don't mind using your tv as your music interface.

Anyway, I don't know that I'd want it for audio files since I already have a squeezebox, but it does have me wondering about using it for HT video.  :hmmm:

Looks interesting - with a nice price point too.

And as you mentioned, it lists FLAC as supported:

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Re: Should I Buy This?
« Reply #7 on: November 05, 2009, 12:52:02 AM »
keep in mind i generally show up when something is broken....so i might represent the bad side of the statistics.
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Re: Should I Buy This?
« Reply #8 on: November 06, 2009, 09:45:44 PM »

I would need FLAC to make it worthwhile

You keep coming back to this.  Could you please explain what is missing?  Everything I read on this thing says it has FLAC support.

I tested FLAC on it and verified that it was bit perfect by recording the audio stream. But it is only bit perfect when playing 48khz or under. 96kHz files are resampled to 48kHz. But it can play 24-bit 96kHz FLAC files.

Here is the thread: http://taperssection.com/index.php?topic=115295.0

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