garym wrote: > yes, the main benefit of the SB ecosystem is to have a multiroom audio > system. You can have a single PC/NAS, etc. holding your music library > and running LMS (you do NOT need a second copy of LMS or your music). > This is connected to your Router. Then you can have many other SB > players (Touch, radio, boom, transporter, SB3, etc.) also connected back > to the same Router (either through WIFI or ethernet). Then for each of > these SB players you can play DIFFERENT things (different song on each > player) or you can synch one or more players together to play exactly > the same thing. This all works whether you are talking about your own > music, internet radio, music services (pandora, etc.) > > For example, in my case, I have a single server running LMS with all my > music. And I have 4 different SB music players connected to my network > (i.e., back to the same router). On these players I can play > independent things or the same thing (i can have one SB playing one > album, another SB playing a different album, my wife can be listening to > internet radio from another SB, and someone in the bedroom can be > listening to Pandora. All at the same time. And I can control any of > the players via an app on my smart phone, tablet, or from my laptop on > the same network. All very simple and how this is designed to work.
+1 Completely correct jeromeharris wrote: > So far, I've been using my Touch in one room of my apartment, connected > to a pair of small powered speakers (and Ethernet-cabled to a small > fanless PC running LMS; a cheap wireless router is cabled between them, > acting as a sort of "bridge" by supplying the necessary DNS addressing), > to play music that I've ripped to a hard drive and, occasionally, to > listen to Internet streams. I intend to move this gear to the living > room and connect it to my main hi-fi system once I have ripped the bulk > of my 2000 CDs to my library drive. Just a warning: have a backup plan and USE IT!!! You don't want to have to rip all your CDs again. Unfortunately I learned the hard way and it was not fun. So please backup your music library. And good luck with new set up, may you enjoy lots of music for many years to come. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ralphpnj's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10827 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=98061 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
