GRC wrote: > 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 and 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.
I was running LMS on a Vista Pro Dual-core 3Ghz with 3GB of memory. Performance was lousy. I run Vortexbox now in a VMWare Workstation virtual machine with 384MB of memory and the performance is outstanding. I actually run two copies: one for in the house and one pointed to the outside world (on different sub-nets.) I had even setup and run LMS from an in-memory virtual disk (Bond Disc) but the Linux Votexbox is vastly faster. Banned ------------------------------------------------------------------------ banned for life's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=56269 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=98423 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
