I have my SB Touch preordered and have been thinking of ways to set it up. I have about 1500 CDs that I would love to put on an NAS and control the Touch with my iphone using iPeng to access the catalog. I currently do not have any storage device that is serving as a media server or any squeezebox devices, so I am really starting fresh.
I was originally thinking of buying a 1 to 1.5 TB external USB hard drive, ripping my collecting to it, and plugging it into the Touch's USB port. However, after poking around on this forum I have become intrigued with the Vortex Box appliance, due to its auto ripping and auto indexing features. I love the idea of, once I have my collection ripped, simply inserting any new CDs going forward and having them instantly added and indexed. What I am wondering now is what would be the best way to set it all up. Basically, my PC and router are on the 2nd floor of my house and my stereo and CD collection are in the basement. My first thought is to plug the vortexbox into the Touch's USB port, both of which will be in the basement. Then the Touch would be the server for the vortexbox and I could access it from my PC wirelessly (for use with iTunes, etc.). My questions for this would be: 1. Would it work? 2. Are there any performance advantages/disadvantages of this setup over, say, hooking the vortex box up to the LAN at the router and having it serve the Touch wirelessly. -- BrianB ------------------------------------------------------------------------ BrianB's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35727 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=73733 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
