nicolas75;671354 Wrote:
> You don't have to.
> As far as I am concerned, messing with weird platforms means looking
> for problems.
> That's why I usually stick with standard computers with Windows or
> Linux, never weird NAS.
>
I'm not talking about NAS boxes, I completely agree with you that one
shouldn't try to run LMS on a NAS, it just causes too much issues and
bad performance. I'm talking about Linux and OSX servers which is all I
have.
I already use Windows in VirtualBox from time to time, but it isn't
stable enough to use as music server. Let's just face it, Windows is a
desktop operating system and not a server operating system, they have
tried to make it work as a server but there are a lot of issues with
using it that way, at least as long as you aren't a Windows geek and
know how to configure it to run smoothly as a server.
MediaMonkey on a Windows desktop computer is probably working great and
might be a good solution for people with a stationary Windows computer,
but it's important to remember that most non geeks are getting a laptop
or tablet these days when their current computer is getting old, and a
Wifi connected Windows laptop or tablet is not the best server device
for a trouble free Squeezebox setup. It's also not the best way to
store a large music library as laptop drives tends to be limited in
size.
What we need to reach the non geeks is a player which can take music
from a Windows shared drive or a USB drive, pretty much what Sonos
already provide today. If the Squeezebox Touch hardware was faster and
had more memory it would be able to do this but it doesn't work with
its current very limited hardware. But it's pretty pointless to discuss
it here because most people on these forums are geeks in one way or
another and want to run a separate server and doesn't want the
Squeezebox to be simplified to fit the masses as it means we will also
loose flexibility and advanced features.
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