FIA On3 Networked Multimedia System Reviewed

Anonymous Howard writes "Designtechnica has reviewed Fia's On3 networked multimedia system. It uses Linux for its OS, supports Samba, audio & video (including Ogg), but the On3 seems to be marred by a lack of some important features. For example, you can't create playlists or autoplaylists (playlists based on rules.) You can only play music sorted in folders, so if your music is sorted by artist and album, you can only listen to each folder at a time. Files are played back in alphanumeric order, so playback order depends on how the tracks are named. The On3 does not handle ID3 tags and track names are simply the name of the file. I'm trying to find a non-microsoft, out-of-the-box solution for a networked media system. Are there any other solutions out there? How do they compare? Are they worth it or does the industry still have a lot of growing to do?"

Comments

OggVorbis

[dfn5]

but the On3 seems to be marred by a lack of some important features.

It supports OggVorbis. What else is there?

Re:So it's more or less useless...

[kfg]

. . .how the heck do you get to market without the basics that you'd have expected from an MP3 player five years ago?

Balls.

KFG

Re:So it's more or less useless...

[mamba-mamba]

Sorry, but playing back in order of how the files are named? That makes the thing more or less completely useless unless you have a very, very short list of songs you always want to hear in the same order; how the heck do you get to market without the basics that you'd have expected from an MP3 player five years ago?

How much of a LUSER are you. I mean any real geek would just organize his music in different folders with different names using hard links so the songs play in the desired order. The folder IS the playlist. I mean, it is linux based, right?

Duh!!!

MM
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