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	==Woozle Notes==		==Woozle Notes==
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==Woozle Notes==
===2021-10-10===
Preliminary assessment, before trying to plug in an HDMI monitor to access the graphical menus:

Despite having an inexpensive way to allow almost unlimited control over signal routing (i.e. monitor/menus), it actually does less than my just-above-low-end amp from the 1990s (or indeed, any such amp from the 1970s-1990s). The modern, digital features you get are also tightly restricted in what they can do.

Just to start with:
:1. If you plug in the headphones, it turns off the speakers -- and, if the manual is correct, there is no way to play through both.
:2. There is no line output. None. So I can't route the signal through my other amp, so I can listen on ''those'' speakers (or headphones).
:3. The internet radio stations it allows you to connect to are on a list which is maintained by a service they control. As far as I can tell, there's no way add your own, no way to listen to a standard stream feed. Commercial services only -- and only the commercial services ''they'' choose.

this just seems so very representational of how bigcorps have come to see hardware as a tool to promote their services, and less as a tool for the enduser's benefit.
<blockquote>The list of Internet radio stations on this receiver is created,
edited, and managed by the vTuner database service
exclusively for use with this receiver.</blockquote>

On the plus side, it does appear to be able to play a wide variety of audio formats, with a wide variety of sampling parameters, with gapless sequencing (as long as the sampling parameters match, which makes sense)... if I can figure out how to get it to play files (this probably requires connecting a monitor).

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Woozle at 12:14, 12 October 2021

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