==== I personally think the best flexibility is to have a separate server somewhere in the house feeding the players (hardware or virtual types). It doesn't have to be a big expensive computer. These days I recommend either the Vortexbox or a sheeva plug. The Vortexbox comes with disk and CD drive to rip CDs and all the software preinstalled, its the easiest thing in the known universe to use. With the sheeva plug you need to attach your own USB drives, but it only takes a couple watts, BUT you do have to load the software your self. =====
The vortexbox appliance or installing the OS on your own system is great, it makes the whole thing so much easier for ripping/tagging etc. - the touch looks great but you would still need to have to use a seperate pc to rip/tag your music and I love the automation/reindexing from the VB. However perhaps you could configure so that /storage/music/flac on the VB is mapped to the actual usb drive on the touch, that way you could use the VB to rip/tag and then music is stored on the touch, although seems a bit of a hassle and would be restricted by your network capability. -- 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
