Hi, I know it's really bad of me posting something like this here, but it's time for it I feel. I've been an avid fan of Slim Devices and bought the first Squeezebox when it came out (2004?) after I enjoyed a friends SliMP3-powered (6 rooms) house. I've since added 2 Classics and two Radio. the server is an now old HP X510 Data Vault running WHS. I feel everything is getting too old now. The WHS eats disks because it was never meant to be able to handle these 2TB WD RED disks. Then Logitech went and killed the Squeezeboxes in favour of the UE. I've had several issues with the Media Center as well.
So, I need to change my setup. But to what? I'd really prefer to keep the 4 2TB WD RED disks, put them in a new cheap server running maybe Windows Server 2012 Foundation and Media Center on top of that. Is it possible? Or should I opt for a NAS? Then which one? (I want to be able to do backups of my 3 Macbook Pro's too really) And the players... I wanted to replace the radios in favour of Touch and maybe the Classics too. But now, I'm not sure. Sonos? No, I don't want to be like everyone else. AppleTV - despite not being audiophile, it was descent enough. But it was horrible to play different music in different rooms or synced in all or a ew rooms. So now the two AppleTV's only serve Netflix and iTunes movies. So guys, pleeeeaase help me out! I want good audio quality, from a manufacturer that will be here in 5 -10 years time. Serving 200GB music and if possible act as a backup for my Macbooks. Last thing is low priority though. Want to play both FLAC, MP3, AAC (protected and non-, either native or transcoded to FLAC/MP3) and OGG (Spotify). Want to be able to play synced in zones or different music in each zone. App-controlled of course (I love Squeezepad and iPeng is pretty ok on the phone). Heeeelp! :) Oh, the same price point. Not some Meridian, Krell etc super xpensive stuff. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ nicky6's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3258 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=99871 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
