Transcoding combinations UPnP and Internet Radio

[Pastim]

(14-03-2015 18:33)Tell Wrote:  

(13-03-2015 10:27)Pastim Wrote:  I can't test when I don't have the device I'm thinking of buying.

Furthermore, whilst I'm happy to tinker, I need to understand. When I say 'need', I am stupidly obsessive about it. It bothers me. As a (retired) technical architect I can't really go forward without a design I comprehend.

That is a holistic approach but flawed by unknowns, I see Simon has filled in the gaps. My brothers a retired electronic engineer and he doesn't plan a job he engineers and improvises, takes a pride in lecturing that when things go wrong, since he hasn't planned, and that he can engineer his way threw it, even thou it's a disaster. Plannings good but there are limits and no planning can be a disaster....

My line of work used to be interbank payment IT systems. When you try to get several such large organisations together improvising is impossible, so it was all planned, and planned to death, including planning for the unknown as far as one could. We avoided unknowns by working rather hard at making sure the unknowns became known. It's become a habit. I still get things to work but probably via a longer process than is strictly necessary (this used to be a difference between UK and US IT development until speed became more important than extreme reliability).