I bought a Squeezebox shortly after the Logitech buyout. It's a risk for me more ways than one. I'm a big Open source fan and most of my music is Flac and ogg. For some strange reason, big firms don't want to take any legal risks that they perceive can come with open source. I think think that all it will take is a nasty gram from the RIAA and poof! Only support for MP3 of some other DRM crippled format will be left. I'm also Linux only, Logitech hasn't shown much love for Linux in their other products. I could easily see them putting the nix on Linux on just a corporate whim. Keeping fingers crossed. Sean
The X-Fi3 keeps with the company's commitment to audio fidelity, thanks to the apt-X codec, which supposedly offers audio quality similar to a wired connection when streaming. On that front, the device also handles FLAC files.
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I bought a Squeezebox shortly after the Logitech buyout. It's a risk for me more ways than one. I'm a big Open source fan and most of my music is Flac and ogg. For some strange reason, big firms don't want to take any legal risks that they perceive can come with open source. I think think that all it will take is a nasty gram from the RIAA and poof! Only support for MP3 of some other DRM crippled format will be left. I'm also Linux only, Logitech hasn't shown much love for Linux in their other products. I could easily see them putting the nix on Linux on just a corporate whim. Keeping fingers crossed.
Sean