To me the big question is whether you want to control your music from the server computer.
If you do, then Apple, iTunes, and Airport Express is a very good solution. It's only easy route if you have Apple DRM'd music. I want my MP3 music on a server computer in the closet. I have plenty of old machines that do this just fine with a new (big) hard disk. I control my music mostly with the remote and sometimes with a browser on another computer (not the music server). This makes SlimServer & player the best solution. -- Sally On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 13:14:28 +0100, Michael Bowyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ben, I hear you - > > I have a similar conundrum myself, and I'm begining to loose faith. I don't > have a Linux server full of FLAC or Ogg-Vorbis music in the cellar, I have a > Mac, iTunes, and a mixture of MP3 and AAC files. > > AFAIK, SqueezeBox cannot browse/play directly from an iTunes share, unless > Slim provide DAAP support (http://daap.sourceforge.net/). Until they do, you > need to run SlimServer - which really just seems like a duplication of > features already offered by iTunes but with SB support and a webbased GUI. > SlimServer 6 is in Beta and still requires some work, 5.4.1 should be stable > but is much slower at searching. The advantage of SlimServer (for me) is that > it's independant of the logged in user. > > Apple also provide a far cheaper hardware solution, with 100% iTunes > integration - albeit sans display. > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss > -- Sally Shears (a.k.a. "Molly") [EMAIL PROTECTED] -or- [EMAIL PROTECTED] (was [EMAIL PROTECTED]) _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
