Here's some experimental info about running Slimserver on NSLU2 and such
hardware....hope it's helpful to someone.

I used to run Slimserver on a Linksys NAS, supporting 2 SLIMP3s and 3
Squeezeboxes, typically with only one actually streaming music at any
time.  Everything is hardwired 10/100Mb Ethernet (no wireless issues).

In that configuration, streaming worked fine when only one music stream
was active.  However, the web interface was painfully slow.  It
typically took 15 to 30 seconds to get a response to any mouse click.
Response time from the remote at a Slimp3 or Squeezebox was also pretty
bad.   With several Squeezeboxes actively streaming different music,
there were noticeable sound dropouts.   This was with the older
(pre-MYSQL) Slimserver release.

I wouldn't recommend running on the NSLU2 with the current version of
Slimserver, or if you expect to use the web interface very much.  It may
work, but it's not much fun to use.

Currently, I'm running the same configuration but on a Kurobox 2 instead
of an NSLU2.   A 400GB disk holds about 18000 songs (as well as other
stuff acting as a general file server).  The Kurobox 2 is configured to
run Debian Etch as its OS, and uses the version of Slimserver that is
distributed with Debian, version 6.3.0 - 8154   Installation of
slimserver was as simple as you could hope for - just tell Debian's
software management utility to "install slimserver" and a few minutes
later it's running.  

This seems to do everything I want.  Streams flac amd mp3 just fine, web
interface is acceptable although somewhat slow compared to when running
on a fast PC.

I can't report on how this configuration might work with the current
release of Slimserver.  I tried to install the newest version on the
Kurobox 2 to replace the older one that comes with the Debian release,
using the official Slimserver release at debian.slimdevices.com.
However, it seems that the current release isn't available for the
PowerPC architecture which is used in the Kurobox hardware (although I
don't really understand why the chip architecture matters since the
Slimserver code is in PERL which works fine on the Kurobox).  But, I'm
happy using 6.3.0 for now.

By the way, the main motivation for pursuing a NAS approach rather than
just using a PC was almost purely economic.  I'm in California, where
electricity rates can be very expensive.   When I measured power
consumption and "ran the numbers", my Slimserver-on-a-PC was costing
about $300 a year just for power.  The Kurobox approach costs less than
$30 a year, much friendlier than the PC (Power Consumer) configuration.

If anyone out there is an entrepreneur, I think there's a potential
product here - Kuroboxes cost about $150 (revogear.com) and a 500GB disk
is around $100 (newegg.com) and dropping.  It takes 10 minutes to put
the disk into the box.  All the software is free.  So one of these
servers can be put together for less than the cost of one year's power
(in California at least) for the PC-based system it replaces.  I would
have bought one.

/Jack

On Fri, 2007-08-03 at 06:40 -0700, adriano wrote:
> dolce24;218745 Wrote: 
> > airuck,
> > Is it possible to stream flac files with the Linksys NSLU2 without
> > problems?
> > I'am considering buying one.
> 
> 
> yes it works, but it is better to use an old version of server (6.11)
> as newer require a better hardware
> 
> regards
> 
> Adriano
> 
> 

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