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georgeh;502762 Wrote: > I plan to get around the transcoding problems by having two Touches. > One, in my 2 channel listening room, will be connected to a USB drive > that has nothing but FLAC, and it will not be used to stream to any > other players. The other will be in the HT room, with it's own USB > drive containing MP3 files. It will have a hard line to the wireless > router, and will stream MP3 to the Radio and Boom wirelessly. > > This works for me, where I only have one room where I care about the > possibility of sound degredation due to MP3 encoding, and I also don't > care to synchronize that room with the rest. Two USB drives is still > cheaper than a good NAS, near as I can tell. > > At least, I think this will work - am I correct? For the price of two Touch units and two USB drives, would it not make more sense just to buy a Vortexbox Appliance and one Touch? That way there is only one library to maintain, even the 24/96 can be sent to the Boom and SB Radio or an SB3 using SoX on the Vortexbox to send the proper transcoded files to which box needs them, and if you do want to Sync all the players for some reason it is no longer an issue (although while Sync'd the Touch would get the same 24/48 files the other players get). This solution also gives ever player access to all the available plugins. Lastly in my opinion, why buy the second Touch just to stream MP3s with it. Buy a used Duet, SB3, or Receiver for the MP3 streaming. Maybe its just me, but that is how I would go at this. The Vortexbox connected to the Router/WAP will serve all the Squeezeboxes in the network, do any needed transcoding from one FLAC only library that might contain 24/96 on the fly, and still allow all the plugins to be used. For less then $200, I just built a 40W dedicated SBS Server for my neighbor with an Atom MB and 1.5 TB data drive. -- iPhone *iPhone* Media Room: Transporter, VTL TL-6.5 Signature Pre-Amp, Ayre MX-R Mono's, VeraStarr 6.4SE 6-channel Amp, Vandersteen Speakers: Quatro Mains, VCC-5 Reference Center, four VSM-1 Signatures, Video: Runco RS 900 CineWide AutoScope 2.35:1 Living Room: Duet, ADCOM GTP-870HD, Cinepro 3K6SE III Gold, Vandersteen Model 3A Signature, Two 2Wq subs, VCC-2, Two VSM-1 Kitchen: Squeezebox BOOM Bedroom: Second Boom Bathroom: Squeezebox Radio Ford Thunderbird: Duet, Mac Mini Ford Expedition: SB Touch, USB drive ------------------------------------------------------------------------ iPhone's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13622 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=73380 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
