Roku SoundBridge software updated to 2.3

By Laurie A. Duncan

Not to be outdone by Sonos, Roku has updated their own (already Mac-compatible) SoundBridge software to version 2.3.

New features include:

  • Internet radio stations display available metadata.
  • New oscilloscope visualizer
  • Multi-language support, including French, German, Spanish and Swedish along with support for upload of other localizations.
  • New large fonts and smooth horizontal scroll on the M1000 and M2000.
  • New PDA compatible Status and Control web page (http:///SoundBridgeNP.html)
  • New TCP/IP-based control protocol — the Roku Control Protocol, which allows full control of the SoundBridge from a remote computer or device. (http://www.rokulabs.com/developers/#rcp)
  • Along with many other improvements and fixes.

Additional details can be found on the Roku Forums.

Tiger users, take note... according to this page, "Roku has identified and reported to Apple an issue with MacOS 10.4 ("Tiger")
which can cause the SoundBridge to become unresponsive when playing an AAC-encoded file via iTunes sharing.

Apple is investigating the issue, and Roku plans to release a software update shortly that ameliorates the problem.

This issue only affects AAC files in iTunes libraries on Macintosh computers running MacOS 10.4 (and 10.4.1)." This update includes a workaround for this particular bug.
 

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