Has anyone discovered a way to offload S50 content to PC yet?

[Steve B.]

Hi all,

I am a new Sirius S50 owner and I was wondering if anyone out there
has discovered a way to transfer saved content on the S50 to a PC?

Thanks

[ThirdNormalForm]

>
> I am a new Sirius S50 owner and I was wondering if anyone out there
> has discovered a way to transfer saved content on the S50 to a PC?
>

How about plugging the output of the S50 to the input of your PC?

[Dr. Droo]

Steve B. wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am a new Sirius S50 owner and I was wondering if anyone out there
> has discovered a way to transfer saved content on the S50 to a PC?
>
> Thanks

The S50 encrypts the files and uses a virtually-proprietary commercial
codec (Ibiquity PAC) to store music. You can't share songs between
S50s or copy digitally to the computer and make it into something
usable. Blocks of the song are shifted and encoded to make sure this
is a very difficult feat.

You can hook the output of the unit into a sound card and record that
way, that's about it though.

I'm glad they put some work into this because the legal storm that
would result from making it trivial would be detrimental to the
company.

--D

[ThirdNormalForm]

>
> I'm glad they put some work into this because the legal storm that
> would result from making it trivial would be detrimental to the
> company.
>

ROTFLMAO. Legal storm? The "legal storm" is over and Sirius was blown
away.

As a result, the S50 is an orphan, production has been stopped, and
certainly software development will shortly if it hasn't already. In
addition, it is costing Sirius money for every one they've built so far, and
they haven't even come to terms with two of the music companies yet.
Purchasers are stuck with a device that is more bug-laden than any consumer
product I've seen in years, and the likelihood of future patches looks
minimal.

Legal storm, indeed. The legal storm has stopped this POS in its tracks.

No telling what it does to SIRI's future plans, to boot. They will have to
implement real DRM in anything new they come out with -- and that doesn't
mean patches -- DRM has to be done at the core of the software.

Will they have a wearable out before XMAS?

[Dr. Droo]

Opinions are like -------s, even Frontmed has one.

However, as usual, his opinion is of no importance.

--D

[ThirdNormalForm]

> Opinions are like -------s, even Frontmed has one.
>
> However, as usual, his opinion is of no importance.

Yes, everyone has one. But some are a bit more informed than others.

[Dr. Droo]

ThirdNormalForm wrote:
> Yes, everyone has one. But some are a bit more informed than others.

Thank you for admitting you're not an informed individual. That's the
first step in several.

--D

[Rich]

>>the S50 is an orphan, production has been stopped,

LOL. Sirius is not XM Vaporware.

[Dr. Droo]

Rich wrote:
> LOL. Sirius is not XM Vaporware.

Mr Rich, good to see you back as usual. Frontmed certainly is snippy
lately, maybe XM is due to see a painful Q1.

--D