I do like my VB appliances.* Easy to use and simply "work" in the background. Mine are on 24/7 and only get rebooted now and again when I'm doing an automatic update. I often go months without a reboot. I agree with some of the comments re ripping. I use dbpoweramp on my windows machine to rip to FLAC. The ripper in the VB doesn't use ACCURATERIP for better matching to insure a secure rip. And the metadata databases in dbpa are a bit better. And even with this, I still find that I need to tinker with the tags just after ripping. But that's easy enough as I can do this while the next CD is ripping (typically using mp3tag for tagging cleanup/edits in my FLAC files).
*my hardware investment in servers and SB players is so much less than my spending on 1000s of CDs that I don't get overly involved in trying to save money on the hardware. I'm sure I could build my own servers running VB software but the few hundred dollars this would save are not worth the tradeoff in my time investment. I'm sure for others the equation could be quite different. In a decade when I may be retired, I'll have the time to tinker with servers and be more concerned about saving a few bucks. *Location 1:* VortexBox (2.2) > LMS 7.8 > Transporter, Touch, Boom, Radio w/Battery (all ethernet except Radio) *Location 2:* VBA 3TB (2.2) > LMS 7.7.2 > Touch > Benchmark DAC I, Boom, Radio w/Battery (all ethernet except Radio) *Office:* Win7(64) > LMS 7.8 > SqueezePlay *Spares:* VBA 4TB, SB3, Touch (3), Radio (3), CONTROLLER *Controllers:* iPhone4S (iPeng), iPad2 (iPengHD & SqueezePad), CONTROLLER, or SqueezePlay 7.8 on Win7(64) laptop Ripping (FLAC) - dbpoweramp, Tagging - mp3tag, Spotify ------------------------------------------------------------------------ garym's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17325 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=100416 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
