Balthazar_B;228786 Wrote: > I guess I should put in a plug for the way I decided to do things. In my > situation, I'm serving music up for both home (SlimServer) and portable > (iPod/iTunes) applications. What I did was to get a NAS (in this case, > a ReadyNAS) to hold a very large and growing music library. Because the > NAS is highly and easily expandable, independent of any > workstation/OS/applications I run, can be backed up separately, and can > be used for other functions (e.g., file storage/backups from my > workstations, print server, etc.), it made sense to focus the functions > of storage on an entity separate from the other computers. > > I use the NAS to hold my FLAC files (800GB and growing). I rip CDs > from a Windows workstation simultaneously to FLAC and to M4A AAC stored > on the workstation (I find the latter the best sounding compressed > format, at least to my ears) and backed up to the NAS (which is in turn > backed up to other media stored offsite). I run a Ubuntu-based > Slimserver (incredibly stable) as a headless box controlled via the > NoMachines NX client/server (free version). My Ubuntu box is > overengineered for Slim, but it was pretty cheap to put together given > how inexpensive the major components are, and it's almost silent (I > keep it in a closet nonetheless). > > I like the idea of componentization, so that Slim, music > ripping/iTunes, and storage all run independently, which makes it > simple to make changes to one part of the system without impacting the > others. I could go to another music management system (so long as it > supports FLAC -- although even then I could transcode to WAV, etc.) > without screwing up my laboriously ripped source files, or change my > Windows workstation without Slimserver noticing anything different. So > it works for me.
i have a similar setup, or i will when(if) i can get it working! my music is on a linkstation live nas, and i'm in the process of converting an old laptop to be the slimserver. it's a toshiba satellite 4030cdt (300MHz Celeron, 128 MB RAM). i upgraded the hard disk to 100 GB last year (was trying to salvage the old machine for my son, didn't really work out...). so, i've got plenty of hard disk, but not much memory. the machine will be used ONLY for running slimserver (and fiddling with linux :-)). all ripping will be done from somewhere else and copied directly to the nas. anyway, i spent the weekend downloading distros & playing with them. tried xubuntu, pclinuxos, puppy, damn small-no, and antiX (based on mepis). i ended up choosing antiX b/c it was the only one i could get to work as a livecd on the target machine (downloads & tryouts were on a newer machine). so far i like it - small, relatively fast (for an old Celeron), good tools, synaptic package mgr, etc. plus there's enough there to play with and get used to a linux gui/os. the main problem is i can't get the nas mounted in antiX. i wanted to use the device name for the source on the mount command, since i only want the music folder on the nas to be mounted. all attempts to mount come up with an error that says the device doesn't exist. the basic syntax i tried is "mount -t xfl //server/share/music /mnt/share/music". i also tried using the UUID, but that doesn't work either. any ideas? other issues: 1. assuming i get the drive mounted, should i configure slimserver to store playlists on the nas or on the server? 2. the antiX install hung when i tried to manually set partition sizes for root, home, and swap, so i reinstalled letting antiX size the partitions. i want to increase the size of the swap partition, but gparted won't let me. do i need to unmount it first, and will that work? will gparted delete data when it does a resize or move? thanks in advance for any help... -- rov ------------------------------------------------------------------------ rov's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10787 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=38519 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
