garym wrote: > I would buy the touches, and set up a small headless server to hold my > music and run LMS. You will always be able to run LMS because you would > never need to update the OS to something that can't run LMS. I use a > Linux based vortexbox system.
This is effectively what I'm doing now but using an Atom based mini-itx system running ClearOs. garym wrote: > ps. Everyone talks as if Sonos will be in business forever. It won't. > Nothing will. But your sb stuff is good for your use case for many > years. And even today, the Sonos system won't even work for me for my > current music library. I've only got around 8,500 songs, so the system would work for me for the foreseeable future. Of course, you're right that being a fully closed system if anything ever happened to Sonos you'd be even more stuck than now with Squeezebox. garym wrote: > Edit: if building a new house, run cat6 Ethernet to everywhere you can > think of. Create a central data cabinet that can hold router, switches, > and server, etc. you might also consider some ceiling speakers in non > critical listening locations and run back to cabinet with amp and SB > etc. I have a combination of this type setup in my house along with > separate SB players for some locations (media room stuff, primary stereo > listening location with amp and speakers, bedrooms). Yep, all of this is already in the plans, although the Touches will be distributed along with local amps rather than in a central cabinet. :) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MarkBennett's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=58063 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=96188 _______________________________________________ Radio mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/radio
