Its a very good question this one. For me I built a low powered atom based server about a year ago, on that I installed the vortexbox OS, the main benefits for me is that I get automated ripping, tagging, cover art and SB reindexing - it works really well, new cd's get popped in the drive and 15mins later i'm listening to the music without having to do anything - in addition Andrew developed the VB player which works well and I have hooked up a pair of wireless headphones so in effect another 'zone' for free.
As an aside the current limitation on the set-up for me is due to personal set-up, I decided to run a desktop environment on the VB and have this hooked to a monitor upstairs, its connected to the router via homeplugs which aren't giving me the network speed I need - I use the server for docs, photos etc. (a media server) and transferring over the homeplugs is causing rebuffering when playing music and general low speeds - this is something I'm working to resolve currently. In terms of the touch I am very tempted to get one for the living room, would it replace the server - probably not - however I can see a lot of benefits for people who haven't got a server and are looking at SB players - usb drives are inexpensive and it sounds great to be able to plug this in without having a pc/server running -- socistep ------------------------------------------------------------------------ socistep's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=18860 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=76721 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
