I know it's an old thread, but I just stumbled into it last night while
reading through Archimago's brilliantly done blog.
Looping back to the original question, my take.
Like a lot of people, I wasted way too much time on dubious audiophile
claims, though my particular weakness lies in the
satkinsn wrote:
The SB3 is exclusively a radio tuner for me, and my big project needs to
be moving all the shiny spinning discs I think I'll want to hear over
the next 20 years to some sort of server - but I'm torn because of the
abundace of options: I ran Vortexbox for a year or so and
aubuti wrote:
If you don't like the tagging that comes with Vortexbox, but you're
comfortable with it as a music server, why not do your ripping and
initial tagging with dBpoweramp in Windows and then just serve it up
from another computer running Vortexbox? Imo, any fussiness of Windows
is
Well, I don't want to drag the thread too far afield, but let me ask you
guys (and whoever else wants to play) about workflow and V'box
hardware.
When I ran it I just grabbed an old Dell that was a 3 gig something or
the other (probably a P4) and let it chug away in the corner of my
rather noisy
satkinsn wrote:
Finally, if I'm going to the trouble of using a Win box to rip and tag
in the first place, is it really then sensible to move everything over
to V'box instead of leaving it on the Windows system and playing out
from there?
s.
I use a Vortexbox and am quite pleased with
Your windows desktop/laptop may not be the most stable LMS environment ,
but a dedicated Linux server is and it's probably Ethernet to not wifi
as an laptop usually are . Beside you could be doing other demanding
task with your pc that would break streaming .
For the server hardware, there are plenty of quiet, low energy
consumption x86 boxes available. I have one based on an Intel Atom CPU
-- it's not silent, because it has a fan, but it's quiet and it's
located well outside my listening areas. Running full tilt it draws 23w,
and using power
