The Vortexbox appliances are designed to work with SBs. The OS is a variant of Fedora (Linux) and it has Squeezebox Server (SBS) and other useful audio software, including ripping software, already installed. It is a normal PC, designed to be run headless. So it clearly satisfies your #1. As for #2, since it's a normal PC, you should be able to transfer files to a portable player. However, if your iPod requires iTunes then you'll have to do it through a different pc, because there is no iTunes for Linux. Search the forum for a lot of user comments on the Vortexbox appliance, which are generally positive. My server is more or less a DIY version of the Vortexbox appliance: same MSI nettop base, but with no optical drive, more RAM, and a quieter, greener, 2.5" 500GB laptop hard drive. Mine runs Ubuntu.
As far as I know the Olive will not work with SBs, or if it does, it would require some major hacks to whatever OS it runs. I don't know anything about the MusicM8 device, but I doubt it will work with SBs either. Neither the Olive nor the MusicM8 software use the slimproto protocol, which is what SBs speak. -- aubuti ------------------------------------------------------------------------ aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=71141 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
