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SoundBridge
SoundBridge is a hardware device from Roku, Inc. designed to play internet radio or digital audio streamed across a home network, over either Wi-Fi or ethernet. SoundBridge devices directly browsed the Radio Roku guide. As of 2008, all Roku SoundBridge products were discontinued; Roku focused on IPTV. As of January 2012, the SoundBridge was no longer available from Roku. As of May 2018, internet radio functionality was no longer supported by Roku; they shut down their Radio Roku server that provided searching, saving, and accessing "Favorite" stations. However, the Roku SoundBridge can still access radio streams stored in its 18 URL presets. The music is also made available by a streaming server, usually a PC running media software. The SoundBridge had a high-resolution vacuum fluorescent display and was compatible with various media servers, namely servers using Apple's Digital Audio Access Protocol; popular servers are iTunes, mt-daapd, Windows Media Connect, Rhapsody, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roku, Inc
Roku, Inc. ( ) is an American public company. Founded in 2002 by Anthony Wood (businessman), Anthony Wood, it produces Digital media player, streaming players and TVs, distributes Streaming television, streaming services and operates an Television advertisement, ad business on its Platform as a service, platform. Roku is the U.S. market leader in streaming video distribution, reaching 145 million people as of 2024. The company also operates in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the U.K., and Latin American countries including Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru. In its initial years, Roku focused on making high-definition video players and launched the first Streaming device, connected TV device to stream Netflix in 2008. Later, in 2014, the company expanded the reach of its streaming platform by partnering with TV manufacturers to license Roku's technology. This allowed Roku OS, Roku's operating system to get pre-installed on smart TVs. Roku has since added c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Firefly Media Server
Firefly Media Server (formerly mt-daapd) is an open-source audio media server (or daemon) for the Roku SoundBridge and iTunes. It serves media files using Roku Server Protocol (RSP) and Digital Audio Access Protocol (DAAP). Features Its features include: * Support for running on Unix/POSIX platforms * Support for running on Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X * Support for running on the Apple Inc. iPhone and iPod Touch * Support for MP3, AAC, Ogg, FLAC, and WMA * Support for Roku SoundBridge via RSP * Support for on-the-fly transcoding of Ogg, FLAC, ALAC, and WMA * On Windows platforms, on-the-fly transcoding of WMA Lossless, WMA Pro and WMA Voice. * Web-based configuration * Support for user-created smart playlists * Integration with iTunes library including reading playlists * Supports serving streaming radio stations Firefly Media Server was formerly known as ''mt-daapd''. It was renamed when it adopted new features such as support for RSP and support for Microsoft Windows an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Squeezebox (network Music Player)
Squeezebox is a family of network music players. The original device was the SliMP3, introduced in 2001 by Slim Devices. It had an Ethernet interface and played MP3 music files from a media server. The first Squeezebox was released two years later and was followed by several more models. Slim Devices was acquired by Logitech in 2006. History Slim Devices was established in 2000, and was first known for its SlimServer used for streaming music, but launched a hardware player named SliMP3 able to play these streams in 2001. Although the first player was fairly simple only supporting wired Ethernet and MP3 natively, it was followed two years later by a slightly more advanced player which was renamed to Squeezebox. Other versions followed, gradually adding native support for additional file formats, Wi-Fi-support, gradually adding larger and more advanced displays as well as a version targeting audiophile users. Support for playing music from external streaming platforms such as P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pinnacle Systems
Pinnacle Systems, Inc., was an American manufacturer of digital video hardware and software for the mainstream and broadcast markets. Pinnacle was a pioneer of using Workstation, computer workstations for video production and was the top player in the burgeoning field of digital video effects units for a number of years in the 1990s. The company was founded in 1986 in California by Ajay Chopra (CEO), Mirek Jiricka, and Randall Moore. History Pinnacle Systems was founded in Sunnyvale, California, in 1986 by Ajay Chopra, Mirek Jiricka, and Randall Moore. Chopra, Pinnacle's principal founder, landed his first job in the computer industry with Burroughs Corporation in the late 1970s, shortly after graduating from Stony Brook University. He later worked for Atari, Inc., as a systems architect for its Atari 8-bit computers, 8-bit line of computers. In 1983, he left Atari to join Mindset Corporation as a engineering manager, a computer manufacturer founded by ex-Atari employees which was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SlimServer
Lyrion Music Server (LMS) is a streaming audio server supported by the LMS community and formerly supported by Logitech, developed in particular to support their Squeezebox range of digital audio receivers. The software is designed for streaming music over a network, allowing users to play their music collections from virtually anywhere there is an Internet connection. It supports PCM audio formats including MP3, FLAC, WAV, Ogg, Opus, and AAC, as well as transcoding. It also supports DSD audio formats such as DSF, DFF and DSD WavPack. It can stream to both software and hardware receivers, including the various Squeezebox models, as well as any media player capable of playing MP3 streams. Plugins from Logitech and third-party sources are also supported, allowing additional functionality to be added. Lyrion Music Server supports grouping clients in order to synchronize playback among all clients within a group. Lyrion Music Server is free software, released under the terms of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ITunes
iTunes is a media player, media library, and mobile device management (MDM) utility developed by Apple. It is used to purchase, play, download and organize digital multimedia on personal computers running the macOS and Windows operating systems, and can be used to rip songs from CDs as well as playing content from dynamic, smart playlists. It includes options for sound optimization and wirelessly sharing iTunes libraries. iTunes was announced by Apple CEO Steve Jobs on January 9, 2001. Its original and main focus was music, with a library offering organization and storage of Mac users' music collections. With the 2003 addition of the iTunes Store for purchasing and downloading digital music, and a Windows version of the program, it became an ubiquitous tool for managing music and configuring other features on Apple's line of iPod media players, which extended to the iPhone and iPad upon their introduction. From 2005 on, Apple expanded its core music features with s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
PlaysForSure
Microsoft PlaysForSure was a certification given by Microsoft to portable devices and content services that had been tested against several hundred compatibility and performance requirements. These requirements include codec support, digital rights management support, UI responsiveness, device performance, compatibility with Windows Media Player, synchronization performance, and so on. PlaysForSure certification was available for portable media players, network-attached digital media receivers, and media-enabled mobile phones. The PlaysForSure logo was applied to device packaging as well as to online music stores and online video stores. PlaysForSure was introduced in 2004. Microsoft plans branding assault CNET News In 2007, Microsoft rebranded and scaled back "PlaysForSure" PlaysForSure Network Media Devices and Windows Vista (WinHEC 2007; 1.7 MB) Slide 13, Retrieved 2007-12-14 from Digital Media Devices and the Windows Logo Program: New Directions for PlaysForSure Testin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Media Player Software
Media player software is a type of application software for playing multimedia computer files like audio and video files. Media players commonly display standard media control icons known from physical devices such as tape recorders and CD players, such as play ( ), pause ( ), fastforward (⏩️), rewind (⏪), and stop ( ) buttons. In addition, they generally have progress bars (or "playback bars"), which are sliders to locate the current position in the duration of the media file. Mainstream operating systems have at least one default media player. For example, Windows comes with Windows Media Player, Microsoft Movies & TV and Groove Music, while macOS comes with QuickTime Player and Music. Linux distributions come with different media players, such as SMPlayer, Amarok, Audacious, Banshee, MPlayer, mpv, Rhythmbox, Totem, VLC media player, and xine. Android comes with YouTube Music for audio and Google Photos for video, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wi-Fi Protected Access
Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) (Wireless Protected Access), Wi-Fi Protected Access 2 (WPA2), and Wi-Fi Protected Access 3 (WPA3) are the three security certification programs developed after 2000 by the Wi-Fi Alliance to secure wireless computer networks. The Alliance defined these in response to serious weaknesses researchers had found in the previous system, Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP). WPA (sometimes referred to as the TKIP standard) became available in 2003. The Wi-Fi Alliance intended it as an intermediate measure in anticipation of the availability of the more secure and complex WPA2, which became available in 2004 and is a common shorthand for the full IEEE 802.11i (or IEEE 802.11i-2004) standard. In January 2018, the Wi-Fi Alliance announced the release of WPA3, which has several security improvements over WPA2. As of 2023, most computers that connect to a wireless network have support for using WPA, WPA2, or WPA3. All versions thereof, at least as implemented throu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NSLU2
The NSLU2 (Network Storage Link for USB 2.0 Disk Drives) is a network-attached storage (NAS) device made by Linksys introduced in 2004 and discontinued in 2008. It makes USB flash memory and hard disks accessible over a network using the SMB protocol (also known as Windows file sharing or CIFS). It was superseded mainly by the NAS200 (enclosure type storage link) and in another sense by the WRT600N and WRT300N/350N which both combine a Wi-Fi router with a storage link. The device runs a modified version of Linux and by default, formats hard disks with the ext3 filesystem, but a firmware upgrade from Linksys adds the ability to use NTFS and FAT32 formatted drives with the device for better Windows compatibility. The device has a web interface from which the various advanced features can be configured, including user and group permissions and networking options. Hardware The device has two USB 2.0 ports for connecting hard disks and uses an ARM-compatible Intel XScale IXP420 CP ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Network-attached Storage
Network-attached storage (NAS) is a file-level computer data storage server connected to a computer network providing data access to a Heterogeneous computing, heterogeneous group of clients. In this context, the term "NAS" can refer to both the technology and systems involved, or a specialized computer appliance device unit built for such functionality – a ''NAS appliance'' or ''NAS box''. NAS contrasts with block-level storage, block-level storage area networks (SAN). Overview A NAS device is optimised for file server, serving files either by its hardware, software, or configuration. It is often manufactured as a computer appliance a purpose-built specialized computer. NAS systems are networked appliances that contain one or more hard disk drive, storage drives, often arranged into logical disk, logical, redundant storage containers or RAID. Network-attached storage typically provide access to files using network file sharing protocols such as Network File System (protocol), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
