I have been working on a sb setup for a friend who is not only not techie, he can react poorly to anything complicated or things not working as expected. Combine that with distance and infrequent short visits, its been a challenge.
We went through a few iterations of extra players I had on hand (duet, radio), and have now settled on a touch as his best solution for a number of reasons (visibility primarily) We have him listening to internet radio, pandora, etc on mysb.com. I installed LMS on his laptop, but he is yet to grasp the differences/advantage of lms over mysb.com, and often his laptop isn't on, or around, and this causes confusion. He wants to add his digital music, and I had planned on helping him add it to lms on his PC, but since he doesn't really understand why lms is there, I had been thinking maybe my best route would be to build him a picore server with a USB HDD (my current setup). So he would have a "thingie" plugged into his router, and his player would work. But, then I stumbled across this - touch as a server: http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/Squeezebox_Touch_as_a_Home_Music_Server My question - is this still a legitimate an up to date method of providing him with an "all in one" server/player? I ask because sometimes wiki articles can be old and irrelevant, and sb's are ever evolving... Before I go about giving it a try I thought I would ask. Basically, if I haven't made myself clear in my ramble above, I am looking to give him a self contained system, even if its limited (i.e. doesn't have the full features of lms, plugins, etc). He is happy with internet radio and pandora, and I think he would be happy with just playing his library, random mix, etc. Oh, one other thing, the touch would need to be on wifi. Not sure if there is an ethernet requirement. Thoughts? Jim ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Redrum's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=111071 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
