Auralic Aries Mini

[mfin]

On 19/02/2018 at 12:29 AM, nnck said:

This is an EXTREMELY newbie question but...

 

I'm considering buying an Aries Mini on the used market. I understand the Lightning DS app is available to control the Aires Mini via iphone/ipad. But can you control it also via a laptop? Can you connect to the server kind of like you do with a Squeezebox Touch, and control your playlist via laptop?

 

https://support.auralic.com/hc/en-us/articles/222512407-Is-Lightning-DS-available-on-Windows-PC-or-Mac-

 

Don't think so, it is coming though.

[mfin]

6 minutes ago, nnck said:

 

If this is true will it also be available for the ARIES Mini? I ask because I heard the AriesARIES Mini is no longer being manufactured. Are they still going to support it in this way?

 

I don't know. I would have thought they will make it available for all the Aries series, they still have to support them all.

 

It would make sense I think as going forward it will be easier for them to continually develop a web based interface than having to push new features and tweaks to the apps through Apple's app store.

[mfin]

59 minutes ago, Pablomontanero said:

 

In the Auralic Forum I found the following message from Xuanqian written in December 2017:

 

We no longer sell ARIES MINI in some countries, but the rest areas are fine. This product is still in our line and we still deliver hundreds of them each month.

In some countries, the people whom are buying ARIES MINI are not the group of people we are trying to target at. For example, they do not have home network that is stable enough to stream music via WiFi and they do not want to invest a reasonable amount of money to improve their home network. I can not say all customers are like that but if more than 50% customers fall into this situation in particular area, then we will think carefully and decide if the market is actually right for us.

 

Ah, they mean Wales.