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.

Thanks for sharing.


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