morthan;572179 Wrote: > Thanks for your reply again. You've been very helpful. Could you please > expand on the above? Whats 'vortebox'? How do you access it via a web > interface? Sounds like a good solution but maybe beyond my technical > capability.
vortexbox is essentially a liunx operating system (see link) that is setup for SqueezeboxServer and disc ripping (among other things). One can also purchase a vortexbox appliance (a small computer already running Vortexbox). Read all about it here: http://vortexbox.org/about/ This may not be the answer for you. One has really four basic options. 1. run mysqueezebox.com (don't need your own computer on, but can't play your own music either. 2. Run SqueezeboxServer on your regular home computer (desktop, laptop, Mac or Windows, etc.). Easy to install SbS and point it to your own music. Downside is that you either need to leave it on 24/7, set up Wake on Lan, if your computer has this, or turn it on an off when you want to use your players. 3. Have a dedicated music server that is on 24/7. This could be a windows machine, a Mac, a machine running some flavor of linux (vortexbox for example is already setup for serving SbS) 4. connect USB drive to TOUCH and serve your SB players with "tinySbS" inside the Touch. You can also do a combination of 1 and 2. That is, use mysb.com with your computer off for internet radio, pandora, etc., and use SbS with computer on, only when you want to listen to your own music. -- garym ------------------------------------------------------------------------ garym's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17325 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=81490 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
