I feel your pain on the 're-ripping' thing. Thankfully(?) my ex wife stole about 1000 CD's in my divorce so I only have maybe 80 left, so it wasn't TOO bad but still took forever. LOL!
As mentioned, i ripped to .flac format. For playing on portable devices, i'm going to setup that Perl script flac2mp3 to run at night and auto-convert & mirror to .mp3. I'm sure others have done this but I haven't read a post here about it explicitely. Here's some details/numbers: - running average of 65% signal strength - browse exclusively with remote Music Folder feature (haven't messed with tags and genre and all that). The response time is not PERFECT i should say. I can wait ~3-4 seconds sometimes after pushing Play for a song to start. This is acceptable to me. - noise on the Infrant is low. i have it about 2 feet from my PC and the PC fan dwarfs it, so i cannot hear the ReadyNAS at all. Not sure how offensive it would be alone in a 'listening room'. (it is a lot smaller than it looks online, its only as long as a size 9 shoe). search 'noise' on the Infrant wiki for more... -install for ReadyNAS was a dream. You literally run their software and there is a checkbox for Slimserver. You check it, it runs, i have never looked back. It has been running SOLID now for about 8 days. I dont know bupkis about linux, and haven't had to (yet). They auto-map directories Music, Video and Photo at the root level and you can just access that from Windows/Mac. One strange thing is it looks like you HAVE to use their /c/media/Music folder or Slimserver wont find your tunes. I have another post on this forum where that one tripped me up pretty good... -web interface response is what i would call OK. I dont like the web interface and dont use it much (except for the ever-popular 'refresh library'). ReadyNAS is SATA 1, so its not the most blindingly fast solution, but its also pretty cost effective (although guys like Netgear now offer cheaper but less expansive solutions). I'm not a NAS expert. Anyway, hope this helps! -- jsunandmax ------------------------------------------------------------------------ jsunandmax's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10411 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33415 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
