Hi all. There are many good thing said about VortexBox on this forum and I like what I read about it, so I'm interested to see if I'm missing out on something by at least not running the software. Here's my current setup:-
My LMS server is an Asus EeePC 1005HA netbook with Atom N270 processor, 2GB DDR2 RAM an a 1TB internal drive (upgrade). It is cabled to my "master" Buffalo WHR-HP-G54 router and runs Windows 7 Home Premium, Avast anti-virus, Internet Explorer, LMS and not much else. My library is currently around 400GB with about 28,000 songs. The Asus sits quietly in a corner, closed unless I want to use the display to see what's playing, initiate a rescan, etc. I rip CDs to FLAC (using dBpoweramp) or download files on a desktop Acer Z5610 Windows 7 machine which hosts my "master" database and is regularly backed up (Windows backup) to an external SATA disk stored off-site. I use MediaMonkey Gold to tag and organise my files on the Acer (and even to listen while I'm working on the PC), then FreeFileSync or FolderMatch to copy things across to the Asus once a week or so. I use iPad apps or the standard web interface to control the server as necessary. The Asus server feeds a hard-wired SB2, wireless SB3, wireless Touch, wireless Boom and a wireless Radio through three additional Buffalo routers configured as bridges to give me a good signal wherever I want music, usually synced to the same stream. I listen to some internet radio streams but don't do Pandora, Spotify, etc.; I don't have any hardware mods, LMS apps or plug-ins (apart from the basics) and have not yet ventured into Triode territory. Now I admit this is not an elegant "one-box" solution like VortexBox since it uses things I already had, but it works (mostly!) and I understand it. So what am I missing that VortexBox could give me? Please note this is NOT a VortexBox criticism; if I didn't already have some "old" hardware lying around I may well have gone down that route. Should I look at the software? Thanks in advance for any observations from a wet and windy (and bankrupt) little country. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ GRC's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13846 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=98423 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
