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Embedded Linux In Onkyo's Home Music Server
IrateSurf writes "ExtremeTech has a story about a new use of embedded Linux from Onkyo, which runs a home music server. Their NAS-2.3 has a CD-player as well as an 80GB hard drive for storing music and streaming it to other players on the an Ethernet network. Also check out the web site for the NAS-2.3."
If only they would make it record radio, too ...
They must be rich if they can afford to have 80gigs worth of legal copies of their music...
if each album takes 80megs about.. then the hd can hold 1000 albums... 1000 albums at 20$ an album is 20,000$ !
Who can afford to spend that much on music?
Stanley Feinbaum, professional journalist and master debater! God bless the USA!
The only reason I keep my Windows partition is so I can mount it like the bitch that it is.
why do they have to make these so big??
1. space for all the connections in the back
2. power amp cooling. Driving serious power to multiple large speakers takes power. That heat needs to be dissipated.
3. It looks better
I would question the market viability of a device designed to copy songs from the radio. When you copy a CD that you bought and paid for, you are buying the material on the CD. You are purchasing a copy. When you hear a song on the radio, you are hearing performance of the song. An artist/record company makes money for every copy and performance made. If you buy a CD and copy it (assuming that you don't share it or anything) just to listen to it on a device such as this, you aren't taking any more than what you paid for. But if you copy from the radio, you are. In fact this was the basis for the case against radio stations streaming broadcasts over the internet, because temporary copies of songs were made on the user's hard drive therefore making it a copy. Most of you have probablly heard of that case. Most radio stations have ceased to do so because of this, and are fighting it as well. I'm not trying to defend the RIAA in any way. However, a device that would facilitate copying of music from the radio would definitely come under serious fire from the RIAA, IMHO.
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Of all the "music server" products i've seen on the market, i've yet to see one that has redundant hard drives. Maybe these things haven't been on the market long enough, but eventually the hard drives in these devices will fail, and when they do, there are going to be some very pissed off consumers out there.
Until recently, audio gear manufacturers never had to worry about the storage media. When you bought the music, you bought a hard copy of that media (cd, record, tape...etc). I understand that these devices still require you to purchase the "hard copy" of the music, but do you want to re-rip 500 CDs just because your hard drive went clunk-clunk?
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What about sharp (the zaurus, makers of various consumer electronics), or the empeg (who didn't make anything prior)? Or TiVO?
/. posted this -- I'm not surprised at all. It's just that there has to be a point where you guys realize that it's already BEEN accepted in this market.
Sony DOES use linux on their consoles. In fact, you can get a kit that lets you do development on PS2 hardware.
And, Diamond got their name making video cards. Only later did they start making everything that fits in a PCI slot (this was shortly after they bought Supra).
I just find it hard to believe, that embedded linux has been out for how many years, and we're still cheering about it being licensed?
Lineo (or whoever owns them now) did the world a great service and may have made some money at it, and now linux is everywhere.
But what's next, are we going to hear about the embedded linux that's in the next high tech microwave?
At this point, it's really not the fact that
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