@armin1975: Yes, but I don't see where you're getting at? Are you suggesting I should buy a NAS that can run LMS? Are you trying to say tehre are a lot of NAS devices that have little memory, too, but still run LMS?
@Mnyb: Actually I don't need most of these features. And just to be clear: My intention was to have a more stable and reliable system compared to the internal server. Other than that, I was quite happy with the way it was. So, an external server doesn't neccessarily have to be faster than the internal one - as long as it's not slower either. But it has to be more stable so I don't need to fix the filesystem of my flashdrive from time to time (or format the whole drive and refill it with my music). I don't need transcoding, I don't use spotify, etc. I usually listen to full albums, most of which I ripped as flac files (some older stuff is still OGG, and there are a few MP3 files, too). These are all formats that the SB Touch can play natively. The only real benefit I see in the web interface (for me), is creating playlists. I don't do that often, but it's nice to see it's possible and easier than before. Anyway, there's one new development. I went on and bought a new (and much faster) usb flashdrive to act as a boot device for my pogoplug. That actually was a greater improvement than I had hoped for. As I mentiond before, opening the web interface initially took almost 10s. Now with the new flashdrive its down to 4-5s. Subsequent action on the web interface still lag a little, but not too bad. What was really surprising to me, though, is that even scanning the library is now faster than before. While it took a little over 9mins before to scan the whole library, it's now finished in under 7mins. I thought that process was limited by CPU speed rather than the speed of the flashdrive which contains the LMS database and swapfile. And it amazes me if I look back to how long it took to scan the whole library on the Touch itself (30-40mins), especially considering that the pogoplug is not such a big step-up in terms of hardware compared to the touch. But the best part is, that browsing through artists and albums on the Touch is now noticably more responsive than before! The browsing performance didn't even bother me before and yet I noticed a difference. It's not that much behind to running the LMS on my desktop system (web interface clearly is). So this already great. For now, the most important question to me is, how reliable that system will work. Over the next weeks I will see how it turns out and if the system is more stable than the internal server used to be. If that turns out to be true, I'm happy. If not, I will probably buy a small Intel NUC system to act as my LMS server. There is only one more tweak I will try out, now that I know how important flash drive performance is on the pogoplug, and that is, to have a seperate flash drive just for swap, so that accessing the database, etc. and swapping won't interfere with each other. Cheers, Timo ------------------------------------------------------------------------ silentcreek's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=63007 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=101687 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
