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 > > _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
