dBerriff;456395 Wrote: > What people don't like is not the issue here; what works for Logitech > Squeezeboxes is. My reasons for buying into Apple technology have > nothing whatsoever to do with this thread, anymore than my using Windows > XP to run Visual Web Developer to implement .NET systems. > > I have been asking "what works" to drive SqueezeBoxes. I posed a > scenario to try to keep the discussion positive. As the thread lengthens > this approach gets less effective. > > I accept the point that ripping is at best a transitory phase for most > people and the present, let alone the future, is downloads, or... > > ... more radically don't own music but just listen to the "cloud". I > have a daughter who has Last.FM on all day and I suppose I should look > into Spotify. We live in interesting times. > > Beyond that I don't think I have learnt anything except that the Touch > can run a server as well as act as a client. That is interesting. I have > suggested elsewhere that Logitech should support a preferred server > solution without compromising the current, open nature of the system. > Could this be it in such a small box? Plus an external drive of course > until the cost of solid-state memory comes down. > > Unless some other suggestions come along I think I am going to save up > for a Tranquil workstation (virtually silent, I am told), load Ubuntu > Server on it and hope I can remember how to get Samba working as easily > as I did last time. This doesn't meet the scenario requirements I know, > but this thread does not seem to be heading in that direction anyway. > Time to move on to other things. > > Cheers.
You asked what we'd recmmend a naighbor. We did - get yourself something like Boom and listen to Pandora, or similar. For the vast majority of people, that is what they are after. But it seems now it's down to what works for *you* based on what *you* like or approve of, and that is a different question altogether. By the way, you mentioned the SC as a noisy and energy wasteful device. That is your computer. I have an utterly silent workstation, and sicne it is on all the time for other things, I happen to run SC on it. Even though it is high end and very fast, it consumes less than 50W as a server (monitor off, processor has slowed down) and will go into sleep after 10 mins, and wake up quickly and seamlessly when you ask it to. Even though I am a huge Linux fan and supporter, I would never recommend it to the average person. Way ntoo much tinkering is required to make it a truly flexible multimedia platform for all of a household's needs. -- pablolie ...pablo Server: 3.3 GHz Intel E8600 Core 2 Duo (8GB) - Vista Ultimate 64 and Ubuntu 9.04 64 Sources: SB3 (3), SB Boom (3), Duet, Accuphase DP65v CD Amplifier: Accuphase E306v Loudspeakers: Ceeroy 3-way tower (tuned) Headphones: Grado SR-1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ pablolie's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3816 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=67637 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
