a very intersting topic that shows how, even an entusiast early-adopter user core, requirements and virews can be quite different.
i like the versatility of SC and SN. i think the confusing part is that players that are switched to SN utterly "disappear" from the fact of the earth as far as SC is concerned. and if something is called SC, i would assume that it alwasy is aware of and able to establish control over any player in my domain. so philosophically speaking, i think isntead of what seems a big divide and either/or choice, players should have two modes of operation - "SC attached" or "SC bypass". but SC always maintains player visibility and the ability to control them back. and while i am an "always on" server person, there are factors to consider there: - some of us are constant tinkerers are like to upgrade change or reinstall systems with some regularity. while SN is great in its ability to mgive us music while our main machine is down, SC's inability to backup player configuration is not the ideal tool there. it would be *awesome* if SN could act as a configuration repository. - granted modern systems have greatly brought down power consumption (my E8600 based server combines good processing power with about 50W of power (monitor off)), but unfortunately sleep modes are still very temperamental on any home servers, since peripheral vendors don't seem to test drivers that thoroughly for sleep in desktop duty so even believers on "always on" regularly need to take down their machines and upgrade and reconfigure them - scheduled downtime is a best practice in IT... :-) -- 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=68012 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
