Lessram wrote: > Seriously interested, but in what way would it improve my experience? > I want to use my Touch as basic as can be, no plugins/addons, no server > running somewhere > Just play my cd collection lossless on the simplest way > I bought the SbT because of this, and not a Sonos. CoverArt, > touchscreen, high audio quality... > That (with the Soundicity app on my phone, tablet and laptop) can't > think of anything I'm missing. > > IMHO the best user experience is; SbT + huge disk working without > problems. > Harddisks are "cheap", but give problems. So a SDXC might solve this. > > But as said; really interested in what the Raspberry Pi might bring > extra!
The built-in server on the Touch is limited, and taxes the Touch's limited processing power. A dedicated LMS server provides those additions you mention (that you say you don't want/need...) but has better performance (scanning, selecting music), and fewer limitations. I believe the built-in server on Touch was intended as A) a way for the unit to work "out of the box" with music on a USB stick, and noting else and B) to allow a way to play music from a "transient" source (USB stick). Have you ever tried running the LMS server (on your laptop, for instance?). The reason I mention Raspberry Pi is that it is a very low cost solution, and there are some reasonably easy software configurations available to get the LMS running. I actually have my LMS server running on a low-powered Linux computer (set up before R-Pi's were available, and use for some other things). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ tcutting's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17402 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=105179 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
