Jumbosmith wrote: > I am thinking of buying one of these. Here's the question: > The NY Time article says, you can't stream files off your computer if > the computer is off (but you can stream internet radio). But what if > the music is stored on a NAS drive that is always on? in that case can > you stream music from the NAS even if the PC is off? Or, are you > depending on the server software on the PC to handle the interchange?
The answer depends. You need 'a computer' with the slimserver software to be on, as the slimserver does the streaming, the Slim Device SqueezeBox is slim and dumb. But, with some NAS machines, you can run the slimserver on the NAS machine, because they really are computers. Search the forums and you'll see lots of threads about various NAS machines that people have had success with. So, you are depending on server software to stream the music, but it doesn't have to be a PC. -- Pat http://www.pfarrell.com/music/slimserver/slimsoftware.html _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
