The question has come up before, and there are some NAS's that have sufficient access and power to run Slimserver, though usually with some performance limits.
It goes back to having a machine with enough horsepower to run a pretty complex and large database (cross indexing albums, artists, composers, genres, years, etc...) without spending a ton of money... You would have to either massively increase the CPU power of the player or the NAS box.. spending money on the player is bad for people who either don't need that functionality, or who have more than one player. (Ie, if you have 2 players, it would be more cost effective to spend the money on a server with more oomph than to increase the cost of each player.) If you can deal with Linux (or have geek friends you can bribe with pizza and beer) it isn't hard to put together a headless Linux box you can hide in the garage or closet and use that as a server. A sort of do-it-yourself NAS box. As you get addicted to the music, it starts to pay for itself in enjoyment. (Gah, I played with SC7's new and improved syncing this weekend... and especially with songs with just a tad of reverb for 'depth' it was impressive to hear the echo from my bedroom player in the living room... now I want a player for the bathroom, the spare room, the office... I am glad I don't have to pay for the server horsepower on each device.) -- snarlydwarf ------------------------------------------------------------------------ snarlydwarf's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1179 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=41813 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
