Regarding the 'switch off' thing, I'm running LMS on a Windows PC without the Server Power Control plugin (but I have no doubt that it's great plugin). The PC fells into a big sleep if no SB device is playing for a while (monitored by the 'Windows: Prevent System Standby' plugin) and wakes up on WOL packets sent when the SB devices are turned back on.
Regarding the ripping and tagging process, I'm running the Vortexbox software in a virtual machine on my PC. Ripping and converting to flac & mp3 is a no-brainer, but tagging usually needs some additional manual work. Don't expect that tags will be perfect after the VB is finished with it! So I use Album Art Downloader if VB didn't find cover arts to my liking and, of course, mp3tag to polish the tags. Regarding the hardware, there's nothing wrong with using either a VB appliance, a small PC like John is using or a standard PC. For NASes, you have to be careful that it has enough cpu power, though. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ reinholdk's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=36070 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=100416 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
