Update on the Imerge unit:- I sent them another email and got an interesting response.....

Chris,

The NP200 is primarily sold to work with the S2000 although I recently
understand that it will work with Onkyo's PC software but this is
unsupported. Many thanks for the codec / music format suggests, these will
be passed on to our developers feature wish list.

If you have any queries then please don't hesitate to contact us.

Regards

Simon

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From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: 17 January 2003 14:38
To: [email protected]
Subject: Website Customer Support Enquiry


Below is the result of your feedback form. It was submitted by
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B1: Submit to Imerge Support

Message: Hello,

I emailed you a couple of weeks ago enquiring about the Network audio player
NP200. I was informed that it could not be used with a PC and that files
could only be served up by the S2000 SoundServer. I have since spotted
this:- http://www.onkyo.net/uk/cms/products/home/av_rec/TX-NR900E/index.htm
and this:- http://www.onkyousa.com/model.cfm?m=NC-500&class=nettune&p=i -
both devices carry the same net-tune logo as the NP200 and both can playback
files stored on a PC via the downloadable net-tune software - can the NP200
be used in the same way? The reason I ask is that the NP200 is the only one
which sports the optical digital output which I would like to have. One last
question does the NP200 support the new windows media audio lossless
compression format included in windows media audio version 9:-
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/9series/encoder/quality.asp



Also a couple of other nice-to-haves would be ogg vorbis support:-
http://www.vorbis.com/ - No nasty gaps between tracks like you get with MP3
plus it is open source and free to use. Also FLAC support
http://flac.sourceforge.net/ - Again a good lossless compressor which is
open source and free.

Cheers in advance

Chris