UnitiServe questions
Posted by: Alamanka on 10 May 2010
Reading on the web site about the new UnitiServe, I understand it will be able to rip, store and stream music. And there will be two versions: one version with internal hard drive, one version without.
I am personally interested in this product, but I am not so clear why I should prefer this product over a "classic" computer based configuration, using either a PC or Mac and some good ripping and media management softare.
So here are my own questions:
1) What is the benefit of the UnitiServe over a "classic" PC or a MAC using good ripping software?
Is this about convenience: user simply insert a CD and the system takes care of the rest without any further manual work?
2) Is the UnitiServe able to play a CD without ripping it first?
3) Will the UnitiServe without the hard drive cost less to purchase?
4) How to avoid the loss of data in case the internal hard drive fails? Will it be possible to store a back-up copy on-line?
Does the customer still need a local back-up solution?
5) For those users who do not wish to use Iphone as a controller, what will be the alternatives?
6) Does NaimAudio have any plan to develop a controller application on other mobile platform (Android, for instance)?
7) Does NaimAudio plans to enhance UnitiServe so that it can also handle DVD or BlueRay (video, movies etc...)?
Thank you.
I am personally interested in this product, but I am not so clear why I should prefer this product over a "classic" computer based configuration, using either a PC or Mac and some good ripping and media management softare.
So here are my own questions:
1) What is the benefit of the UnitiServe over a "classic" PC or a MAC using good ripping software?
Is this about convenience: user simply insert a CD and the system takes care of the rest without any further manual work?
2) Is the UnitiServe able to play a CD without ripping it first?
3) Will the UnitiServe without the hard drive cost less to purchase?
4) How to avoid the loss of data in case the internal hard drive fails? Will it be possible to store a back-up copy on-line?
Does the customer still need a local back-up solution?
5) For those users who do not wish to use Iphone as a controller, what will be the alternatives?
6) Does NaimAudio have any plan to develop a controller application on other mobile platform (Android, for instance)?
7) Does NaimAudio plans to enhance UnitiServe so that it can also handle DVD or BlueRay (video, movies etc...)?
Thank you.
1. Have you heard it running yet? I didnt know it was available. Anyway, PCs and Macs can be made to run just as quietly.
2. Are you sure? Could be like any other computer. Who needs to reboot multiple times a day? Hyperbole at its finest.
3. Well if you dont download porn and use it for receiving email you should be just fine.
4. eh?
5. Yeah options suck. Who wants to rip to FLAC or MP3 for an ipod? Who wants to be able to burn a CD for their car? Who wants to stream a little Pandora every once and a while?
6. What keeps them from grabbing your CD Player or speakers?
7. Who wants a computer on their rack regardless of how quiet it is. Of course none of the below are necessary or
A) You can use any interface or media player you want. Have it look and interact any way you like.
B) Check something online like a Wiki to get a Bio of someone new.
C) Expandable
D) Less expensive
E) Keyboard and mouse (only if you want)
F) User friendly for issues/problems/upgrades, i.e. no need for a "dealer" to assist.
G) Can double as a legit computer for other uses (games, work, email, music, web etc)
H) DVD Player
I) Handles video streaming
J) Porn
K) Encourages hiding it in a closet
L) Who cares if it breaks, dies, requires bigger drives etc.... It is cheap to maintain and own.
M) Will not be easily obsoleted until it likely breaks
N) Can be made silent
O) Could use other methods of streaming than UPnP, or things such as streamlink or whatever.
P) Burning CDs for your car
Q) Rip CDs to other codecs with whatever tagging you want.
R) Not restricted to Apple devices running computer headless.
S) Stream music or any content, from any number of online "stations".
T) Listen to a football match (pandering)
U) Can easily be sold or moved along for other activities should you decide the LP12 is all you need.
V) You need one for feeding and/or controlling the Unitiserve. Not directly maybe but tell me anyone who will buy this thing and not use it with a PC in some fashion.
W) You have one already you can use.
X) You can do it for about $350
Y) Gives the incessant tweaker more to obsess on
Z) You can buy one today.
That said, I would trade in my PC for one in a heartbeat.
2. Are you sure? Could be like any other computer. Who needs to reboot multiple times a day? Hyperbole at its finest.
3. Well if you dont download porn and use it for receiving email you should be just fine.
4. eh?
5. Yeah options suck. Who wants to rip to FLAC or MP3 for an ipod? Who wants to be able to burn a CD for their car? Who wants to stream a little Pandora every once and a while?
6. What keeps them from grabbing your CD Player or speakers?
7. Who wants a computer on their rack regardless of how quiet it is. Of course none of the below are necessary or
A) You can use any interface or media player you want. Have it look and interact any way you like.
B) Check something online like a Wiki to get a Bio of someone new.
C) Expandable
D) Less expensive
E) Keyboard and mouse (only if you want)
F) User friendly for issues/problems/upgrades, i.e. no need for a "dealer" to assist.
G) Can double as a legit computer for other uses (games, work, email, music, web etc)
H) DVD Player
I) Handles video streaming
J) Porn
K) Encourages hiding it in a closet
L) Who cares if it breaks, dies, requires bigger drives etc.... It is cheap to maintain and own.
M) Will not be easily obsoleted until it likely breaks
N) Can be made silent
O) Could use other methods of streaming than UPnP, or things such as streamlink or whatever.
P) Burning CDs for your car
Q) Rip CDs to other codecs with whatever tagging you want.
R) Not restricted to Apple devices running computer headless.
S) Stream music or any content, from any number of online "stations".
T) Listen to a football match (pandering)
U) Can easily be sold or moved along for other activities should you decide the LP12 is all you need.
V) You need one for feeding and/or controlling the Unitiserve. Not directly maybe but tell me anyone who will buy this thing and not use it with a PC in some fashion.
W) You have one already you can use.
X) You can do it for about $350
Y) Gives the incessant tweaker more to obsess on
Z) You can buy one today.
That said, I would trade in my PC for one in a heartbeat.
quote:Originally posted by pcstockton:
A) You can use any interface or media player you want. Have it look and interact any way you like.
B) Check something online like a Wiki to get a Bio of someone new.
C) Expandable
D) Less expensive
E) Keyboard and mouse (only if you want)
F) User friendly for issues/problems/upgrades, i.e. no need for a "dealer" to assist.
G) Can double as a legit computer for other uses (games, work, email, music, web etc)
H) DVD Player
I) Handles video streaming
J) Porn
K) Encourages hiding it in a closet
L) Who cares if it breaks, dies, requires bigger drives etc.... It is cheap to maintain and own.
M) Will not be easily obsoleted until it likely breaks
N) Can be made silent
O) Could use other methods of streaming than UPnP, or things such as streamlink or whatever.
P) Burning CDs for your car
Q) Rip CDs to other codecs with whatever tagging you want.
R) Not restricted to Apple devices running computer headless.
S) Stream music or any content, from any number of online "stations".
T) Listen to a football match (pandering)
U) Can easily be sold or moved along for other activities should you decide the LP12 is all you need.
V) You need one for feeding and/or controlling the Unitiserve. Not directly maybe but tell me anyone who will buy this thing and not use it with a PC in some fashion.
W) You have one already you can use.
X) You can do it for about $350
Y) Gives the incessant tweaker more to obsess on
Z) You can buy one today.
That said, I would trade in my PC for one in a heartbeat.
The refinements of the soundtracks evoked on point J) provide a strong new argument toward a direct connection of the computer with a high-end audio system.
This could be a rather important missing feature on the UnitiServe...
quote:1. Have you heard it running yet? I didnt know it was available. Anyway, PCs and Macs can be made to run just as quietly.
2. Are you sure? Could be like any other computer. Who needs to reboot multiple times a day? Hyperbole at its finest.
3. Well if you dont download porn and use it for receiving email you should be just fine.
4. eh?
5. Yeah options suck. Who wants to rip to FLAC or MP3 for an ipod? Who wants to be able to burn a CD for their car? Who wants to stream a little Pandora every once and a while?
6. What keeps them from grabbing your CD Player or speakers?
7. Who wants a computer on their rack regardless of how quiet it is. Of course none of the below are necessary or
1. My TP is dumb.
2. My TP never freezes up
3. My M-Audio Transit and HiFace drivers constantly suck and needs rebooting (both on XP and Windows 7 machines) when you change between WMP, Foobar and Skype. HiFace is a bit better than M-Audio -- but sometimes it just stops working and need rebooting. I think designers of both were watching a lot of porn.
4. When I copy large data my Foobar gets stuck for a second -- I hate this.
5. Many people are not that prone to PC games -- what is easy for you is the headache for others. I use computer all day long and I hate it -- I don't want to mess it up with music replay
6. Modern kids don't care of CD players and speakers -- they are slaves of internet, mp3 and boom-boxes.
7.
You can get quite stable PCs that you can skin to look like media devices that you wouldn't know were computers unless you looked under the bonnet. I drive mine with a remote and it can be skinned in a variety of different ways such as a coverflow interface (for example - not mine, but gives you an idea of what can be achieved nowadays):quote:Originally posted by AMA:
1. My TP is dumb.
2. My TP never freezes up
3. My M-Audio Transit and HiFace drivers constantly suck and needs rebooting (both on XP and Windows 7 machines) when you change between WMP, Foobar and Skype. HiFace is a bit better than M-Audio -- but sometimes it just stops working and need rebooting. I think designers of both were watching a lot of porn.
4. When I copy large data my Foobar gets stuck for a second -- I hate this.
5. Many people are not that prone to PC games -- what is easy for you is the headache for others. I use computer all day long and I hate it -- I don't want to mess it up with music replay
6. Modern kids don't care of CD players and speakers -- they are slaves of internet, mp3 and boom-boxes.
7.
quote:Originally posted by AMA:
3. My M-Audio Transit and HiFace drivers constantly suck and needs rebooting (both on XP and Windows 7 machines) when you change between WMP, Foobar and Skype. HiFace is a bit better than M-Audio -- but sometimes it just stops working and need rebooting. I think designers of both were watching a lot of porn.
4. When I copy large data my Foobar gets stuck for a second -- I hate this.
Strange. In all seriousness, something is up with your computer. With 80K tracks in FLAC, my Foobar is lickity split. Even running a somewhat resource intensive configuration.
And I have never once need to reboot the M-Audio drivers? Exactly what does that mean? Unplugging the USB on the Transit to interrupt the power?
When you say "when I copy large data", what are you referring to? Scanning your hard drive for music, i.e. Setting up the Album List/Media Library? This takes time with any player.
Lastly, if your kid only want iPods and Playstations, that is your fault my friend.
That truly is the worst interface I have ever seen - I'll have nightmares now ... is there an erase forever function.quote:Originally posted by Andy S:
She died with her telly on, 87 and confused
With not enough hospital beds cos all the money’s been used
On the end of the century party preparations
And they reckon that the last thing she saw in her life was
Sting, singing on the roof of the Barbican
Nigel Blackwell from A Country Practice
The saddest lyric I have ever heard, as it recounts a true happening on the eve of the millennium - after which I prayed Sting would be for ever banned, but then he return with this insult to anybody who loves traditional music. If you want authentic medieval genius try Blackmore's Night, but please, please, not Sting.
That truly is the worst interface I have ever seen - I'll have nightmares now ... is there an erase forever function.quote:Originally posted by ROTF:
[QUOTE]Originally posted by Andy S:
She died with her telly on, 87 and confused
With not enough hospital beds cos all the money’s been used
On the end of the century party preparations
And they reckon that the last thing she saw in her life was
Sting, singing on the roof of the Barbican
Nigel Blackwell from A Country Practice
The saddest lyric I have ever heard, as it recounts a true happening on the eve of the millennium - after which I prayed Sting would be for ever banned, but then he returns with this insult to anybody who loves traditional music. If you want authentic medieval genius try Blackmore's Night, but please, please, not Sting. Now I know wh you think all transports sound the same
