Core Infinity board

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No, there are two USB inputs in the menu of the software but there is no secondary physical option on the device. Only available USB port on the device is the USB B port that we had in the past.

That means it can not support external USB drives (or thumb drives/SD card readers) directly and therefore the core infinity board is not adding real streamer function!

I think you mean it is not acting as a server. My first streamer was a Linn Akurate DS and it did not have any usb input and I'm not sure that they do now. Linn were amongst the first to get streaming right and decided it should be by ethernet. They were probably correct as the sound is probably optimal that way. As far as I am concerned, streaming is about sending to the unit by ethernet and wifi. My 250 Pro does that now, hopefully it will do it better with IC. With the promised unPNP/DLNA I would hope to be able to connect my network server.

There is no doubt the CI board has a NGINX server up and running. It doesn't serve any web based application (or I couldn't find the correct page/port to reach the app) for now. I am expecting, the software will be capable to stream certain type of media formats and any file server like samba will be mountable via ethernet/wifi. But unfortunately, there is no USB port for any thump/hdd/ssd drive on the unit. There are lots of good web based player UIs. (RuneAudio) Maybe they strategically trying to beat any kind of streaming device/software to cover that side of the product line.

Actually, with a low latency/real time kernel and MPD based player, you can beat any kind of external streaming device/software as your signal path is going to be shorter (and also jitter won't be an issue) than any kind of external solution. It would be great to see something like AP Linux or RuneAudio runs directly in the Devialet unit.

I am waiting and keep dreaming about a solid and competitive software.