Listener;219361 Wrote: > I think that the h/w has matured enough to allow for a Audiotron-like > architecture to be adequately implemented now. The kind of > architecture I have in mind would support playback of MP3, MP4a (AAC), > WMA, Flac and Wav formats at a minimum with decoding on the client. > Music files would be stored on CIFS/Samba file servers or PCs with > folders hsared to the LAN. The client would not store music files > themselves. The only reason I can see for a fat device is simplicity. If you anyway need a NAS box or fileserver, I don't really see the point with a fat device. To make it simple I think it needs to be a single box or as an alternative a fat client that supports external USB disks.
If you are going to run a separate fileserver PC, you can run SlimServer on that machine, so then there is no real big advantage with a fat client. If you are going to use a NAS for the fileserver, you might be able to run SlimServer on the NAS, but this can be a bit complicated. But how many people actually already have a NAS, if we aren't counting the geeks ? If they don't have a NAS, they can choose to either buy a NAS and try to install SlimServer on that with todays thin client. Or as a better alternative, they can skip the NAS and just buy a small silent computer, for example the Mac Mini or something similar. I'm not sure it would be easier to setup a fat client + a NAS box compared to a thin client and a PC/Mac Mini with SlimServer. The configuration has to be done somewhere in both solutions and I'm just not sure it will be easier to configure stuff in a fat client compared to the current SlimServer web interface. As I said earlier in this thread, I think the perfect solution would be if Logitech sold 2 separate boxes, one client box (the SB3) and one server box (with pre-installed, pre-configured SlimServer). If these are made in a nice dockable setup, some users can only buy the client part and use their standard PC as server and some users can buy both parts and dock them together to get a single box (with two parts) that is easy to setup and use. This would result in a very easy setup for those chosing to buy both boxes. I'm guessing that people that bought the Slimp3 or SB1 devices some years back have a better working device today compared to when they bought it. The reason for this is the thin client architecture. -- erland Erland Isaksson 'My homepage' (http://erland.homeip.net) 'My download page' (http://erland.homeip.net/download) (Developer of 'TrackStat, SQLPlayList, DynamicPlayList, Custom Browse, Custom Scan, Custom Skip, Multi Library and RandomPlayList plugins' (http://wiki.erland.homeip.net/index.php/Category:SlimServer)) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ erland's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3124 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=37279 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
