I think my state before SBT is pretty much similar to you. I guess for me now is to explore either Pi or Vortexbox.
Thanks! garym wrote: > 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... > > p.s. And of course I also gained something I didn't have with the laptop > > DAC > stereo. With squeezeboxes I have a single music server (the > vortexbox), but I have multiple Squeezeboxes around the house and I can > play the same thing to all at once (synched) or DIFFERENT things to > different squeezeboxes (bedroom boom playing something different from > Living Room Transporter). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ kenship's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=64854 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=104388 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
