regalma1;438742 Wrote: > I would put power savings as number one. Noise can be addressed by > placement. The CD ripper would seem to be superfluous since pretty much > every PC nowadays has one. Also, ripping, tagging, file organizing etc > is easier done on a full PC. > > The Buffalo TerraStation Mini set up to run SC would be ideal. Super > efficient, tiny, and quiet.
I have vortexbox running on a server I built from Mini-itx.com, within the server is a slimline cd drive. I re-ripped my entire collection to FLAC using vortexbox and, for me, it was a god-send for speeding up and automating this process. Ongoing as well its great, I got a couple of cd's in the post today and have popped them in the server and its served up to my SB 15mins later without having to turn the laptop on. Of course tagging is never going to be 100% correct, I'm 75% happy with the tags/artwork and I'm happier sorting 25% out at a later date then always having to rip manually with the laptop on. I appreciate though that for other people they would rather do this manually and make sure the tags are 100% to their requirements at the start. One thing I would like from the server is to access a premiumm tag/artwork service (which I'd pay for), however I raised this with Andrew on the Vortexbox forum and I don't think its possible due to contract type issues. -- socistep ------------------------------------------------------------------------ socistep's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=18860 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=65338 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
