snarlydwarf;562690 Wrote: > Reading files via NFS/SMB and even UPNP type protocols does not give you > the indexing that a proper server would. Ie, there is no NFS or SMB API > for "please show me all the tracks with genre 'Foo'". Likewise there is > no API for tracking playcounts, ratings, etc. > > If you use simply one player, then I guess that doesn't matter: if the > player is sufficiently fat, it could make its own index by scanning > files. but if you have more than one player, why have more than one > index? How would you synchronize ratings etc. > > heck, if you only have one client, why even bother with NFS: just > attach the hard drive directly to the "player". Adding NFS or SMB > seems to just complicate things more with a single player.
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