New SB ?

[Corelli45]

Can I down sample these tracks on JRiver? I have JRiver 17 but have not used it for while.
Corelli

[Gingernut63]

(...I'm a dinosaur with my server with thousands of digitized albums, even among my same aged friends).

Geez, that must make me a dinosaur too, and we all know what happened to them.... they turned into birds! Sorry I'm getting too metaphysical.

I doubt anyone knows that, but you may find this speculation thread of interest: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showth...-kit-next-year

Some good thoughts although not necessarily positive. thanks for the link.

[garym]

Geez, that must make me a dinosaur too, and we all know what happened to them.... they turned into birds! Sorry I'm getting too metaphysical.

Anyone with more than 50 posts on this forum probably falls into the "dinosaur" category when it comes to interest in both owning music (vs streaming from a service of some kind) and the mechanism that we actually use to listen to such music. ;-)

[MrC]

Can I down sample these tracks on JRiver? I have JRiver 17 but have not used it for while.

I haven't read this thread, so I'm not sure I can answer directly. But the JRiver folks will likely answer promptly on their forum:

http://yabb.jriver.com/interact

[Corelli45]

I'll check that put MrC. Thanks.

[DejanM]

Well I didn't want to start discussion about whether Hi Res is better than Red Book or not. I was only hoping that somebody may perhaps know something about Logitech plans ...

I believe that SB Touch (as a latest Logitech product) is quite Ok except in two areas: it doesn't support 24/192 (it can read it but it does downstreaming to 24/96 - I have to try that proposed plug-in though) and its processing power is rather limited which produces often break downs when used with directly connected large USB Disc. So we need also more CPU inside and better receiver.

[Corelli45]

The EDO plug in provides 24/192 from all outputs. There is much advice re the connection of a USB hard drive but you could use a Nas such as Vortebox etc.
Corelli

[aubuti]

So we need also more CPU inside and better receiver.

You keep talking about "we need." Who is this "we"?

[gharris999]

You keep talking about "we need." Who is this "we"?

Well, me, for one. I had very high hopes for the SBTouch as a product that could eliminate the need for a stand-alone server. The reality is that it doesn't even come close to being able to support my library of >60k tracks on a USB disk. Limited CPU and memory are the stumbling blocks as far as I can tell. But, as folks are pointing out here, those of us with large, locally stored collections probably represent an evolutionary dead-end in this particular media ecology. So, I guess that "we" be dinosaurs. And by implication, "we" probably shouldn't be holding our breath waiting for Logitech to roll out a new product with the kind of CPU and memory horsepower that caters to our particular whims.

That said, given the amount of time and money I've spent being a lay-evangelist for this product line, I can't help but feel disappointed that my whims seem to have fallen off Logitech's radar.

[aubuti]

Well said, Gordon. I guess my hopes for the standalone server were never very high, so the dodgy implementation in the current Touch wasn't as disappointing for me. But I am disappointed that we may indeed have reached a dead-end.