Mark Lanctot;173390 Wrote: > Run that by me again? > > I must have misunderstood.
The home server is quite different from a desktop computer. In my world a desktop computer at home is the computer most people would see as "the computer". I don't know about you but I have yet to experience a desktop computer with a performance that I can live with that is quiet. Also they tend to draw a lot of power. Hence, the desktop computer is usually offline. Running a 3GHz+ computer in order to shuffle 1Mbps of data over the network also seems like a complete waste of CPU. The home server is totally different. It's a computer that is on all the time. Doesn't draw much power and therefore doesn't require any fans. Personally I have two mini-itx computers, running Ubuntu Linux and ClarkConnect respectively. A lot of people are getting NAS boxes, not specifically for Slimserver but because it makes sense to store data on a home network. Much of the recommendations in these forums makes suggestions about all-in-one boxes acting both as NAS and SS (e.g. Infrant). Perhaps it would make sense to make a pre-configured SS running on a Soekris or a PC Engines WRAP that would just find any shares on the network and make that music available. If only SS didn't require so much resources. Another thought: Why not recommend people that find it difficult to use EAC/Flac or similar to use Windows Media Player and encode to WMA lossless. They could then be provided with an application that transcodes the WMA file to Flac, store it on a NAS, copying cover art and tag information before the original WMA file is deleted. -- bergek Transporter - Squeezebox 3 - Serener GS-L02 - Via EPIA SP8000 - Ubuntu 6.06 Server ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bergek's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7805 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=31879 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
