jaggy;597726 Wrote: > > - speed, lags, glitches > - dropouts because of wifi issues > - stability of server software; ease of updates (esp on a NAS) >
One thing that needs to be emphasized - use an always-on music server of adequate power - I can't recommend VortexBox on an old PC (or newer low-power silent PC) highly enough. The problem I experienced was connection problems if the server wasn't available, and reconnecting after waking the server required persistence and several minutes - one of those annoyances you're trying to avoid. I used to run SqueezeCenter on a regular PC that I would suspend at the end of the day. Squeezeboxes can send Wake-On-Lan (WOL) to wake up suspended servers but it never worked properly for that machine. So I switched to a separate VortexBox machine and it worked beautifully for weeks - press "play" and it played. Then I got worried about power usage (40 watts for that particular PC, some are as low as 20 watts), so I activated the "Server Power Control" plugin for end-of-day power suspension and used the player's WOL capability to wake up the server in the morning. This worked, but it took a couple of minutes to wake up and reconnect in the morning - a delay I found so annoying that I turned off the power plugin and now just run 24 hours a day. With regards to running SqueezeCenter on a NAS - many here have reported poor performance with some NAS units. VortexBox is a much better solution. It also has a one-click software "update" feature. FWIW, the Vortexbox is hard-wired to the network, 4 of my 5 players are wireless. -- krochat ------ iZotope SRC (96kHz offline upsampler) -> Touch -> TacT RCS 2.2X -> Convolver PC (w/Acourate filter)-> Apogee Big Ben -> (TacT S2150 -> Vandersteen 3a Signature + TacT S2150 -> TacT W210) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ krochat's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=6579 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=84267 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
