dyohn wrote: > Hi. I'm running Vortexbox on a DIY PC with an AMD Athlon processor and > 1Gb RAM, so it's a Fedora 20 kernel and LMS 7.8. My library is about > 1.4Tb on a 2Tb drive but that's probably not really pertinent to my > question. It's not that I think anything is necessarily slow, it's just > that I have the ability to replace the MB with a significantly better > one. VB will utilize the additional memory and processor speed, but I > was just wondering if there is any advantage to LMS.
Only if your Athlon is a single core. LMS in itself can not really exploit multi core. So for a dedicated LMS server 1-2 cores are plenty for any normal size collections. I guess that you have 40.000 tracks. Myself, I only replaced my first server as I started ripping my DVD/HD-DVD/Blu-ray collection and needed more drives and a little more umph. My music files are still on the same old harddrive. Scanning is off cause faster, but with my small collection who cares. Development means that my new server (2012) use the same amount of electricity as my old (2009) atom based server. dyohn wrote: > How much transcoding does it do? My library is mostly FLAC and ALAC. It depends on what kind of squeezeboxes that you have?! Ideally none; I am not 100% sure but I think that the Touch is capable of handling all codecs and resolutions in hardware. But the older the Squeezebox the fewer Codecs are handled in firmware and LMS (sox) takes over. It is my understanding the SOX is quite lightweight and Works with e.g. Raspberry Pi. Discalimer: I seem to recall that some libraries used in LMS are not working on all platforms... Not fully updated http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/Hardware_comparison So according to this it is -Software-based MP3, FLAC, Ogg Vorbis, WMA (except WMA Lossless), AIFF, WAV- since SB2. But as can be seen from the table the DAC in the boxes are a limitation for resolution. No mentioning of ALAC... Main: Receiver (Audiocom) -> Beresford Caiman+ (Gatorized) -> Carver A-500x -> B&W 704 Office: Receiver -> Luxman L-210 -> Stax SR84 Pro -> Beresford Bushmaster -> Superlux HD668B Server: A8-5500, 4 GB, SSD+ 2*1 TB, Win8 w. SBS 7.8 (SQLite w. High Mem) Tied together by D-Link DIR-655 + DGS-1008D ------------------------------------------------------------------------ slate's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=30502 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=101521 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
