kenship wrote: > I will test setting up media server on MyBook first to see if it process > 24/192 decent enough. Then consider Pi with Max2Play. I was hoping to > eliminate the need of connecting notebook to DAC by having a SBT but it > seems I have complicated my life a bit more. We shall see. > > Thanks!
not really. Once setup you'll find that it all works very well and is simpler than running notebook to DAC. Pre-squeezebox, I used a laptop with attached USB HDD (for music) and feeding a S/PDIF DAC (which fed my preamp/amp). I used foobar2000 as the music player/server. With Squeezeboxes, I have a small, fanless Vortexbox (NAS essentially) sitting in a back cabinet that runs 24/7. It runs LMS and holds my music files (~90,000 mostly FLAC files). This feeds my various Squeezeboxes, all controllable via my laptop, my iphone or ipad (ipeng or squeezepad), or an old duet CONTROLLER (my wife prefers it). It all just works and I don't have to think about turning things on and off. The only maintenance is an occasional software update to the vortexbox (which I control from a WebGUI from my laptop and is a matter of clicking on an icon) and of course adding new music to my library (which I do by simply moving files from my laptop drive (where I ripped the files with dbpa) to the Vortexbox drive (which is mapped as a network drive on my laptop). It all sounds more complicated than it actually is... *Home:* VortexBox 4TB (2.3) > LMS 7.8 > Transporter, Touch, Boom, Radio (all ethernet) *Cottage:* VBA 3TB (2.3) > LMS 7.8 > Touch > Benchmark DAC I, Boom, Radio w/Battery (all ethernet except Radio) *Office:* Win7(64) > LMS 7.9 > Squeezelite *Spares:* Touch(3), Radio(3), Boom, SB3, CONTROLLER *Controllers:* iPhone6 & iPadAir2 (iPeng8 & Squeezepad), CONTROLLER, or SqueezePlay 7.8 on Win7(64) laptop *Files:* ripping: dbpoweramp > FLAC; post-rip: mp3tag, PerfectTunes; Streaming: Spotify ------------------------------------------------------------------------ garym's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17325 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=104388 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
