snarlydwarf;258629 Wrote:
The question has come up before, and there are some NAS's that have
sufficient access and power to run Slimserver, though usually with some
performance limits.
It goes back to having a machine with enough horsepower to run a pretty
complex and large database (cross indexing albums, artists, composers,
genres, years, etc...) without spending a ton of money... You would
have to either massively increase the CPU power of the player or the
NAS box.. spending money on the player is bad for people who either
don't need that functionality, or who have more than one player. (Ie,
if you have 2 players, it would be more cost effective to spend the
money on a server with more oomph than to increase the cost of each
player.)
If you can deal with Linux (or have geek friends you can bribe with
pizza and beer) it isn't hard to put together a headless Linux box you
can hide in the garage or closet and use that as a server. A sort of
do-it-yourself NAS box. As you get addicted to the music, it starts to
pay for itself in enjoyment.
(Gah, I played with SC7's new and improved syncing this weekend... and
especially with songs with just a tad of reverb for 'depth' it was
impressive to hear the echo from my bedroom player in the living
room... now I want a player for the bathroom, the spare room, the
office... I am glad I don't have to pay for the server horsepower on
each device.)
I have just placed an order on a QNAP Turbostation 209 Pro and 2 500 GB
HD which I plan to hook up in a raid 1 configuration. I hope it will be
able to do the job. At least it will be able to host all my CD's riped
in FLAC. Looking forward to a hack to do the job on the server stuff.
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