Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Can a Squeezebox Touch access a NAS?
I have a wired Linux-based Western Digital NAS which is currently serving 3 wired WD TV Live HD media players in different location of my house. I only maintain 1 source of Music/HD Video contents in the WD NAS and it all worked great. Since my SB Touch can not see the WD NAS and I am beginning to maintain 2 sources of music Library (one from my PC) which is a pain, Can I install the free Vortex Linux server software to my WD NAS that will allow the Touch to access the WD NAS? Has anybody done this before? Thank You for your advice -- oh6781 oh6781's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=43906 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=85472 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Can a Squeezebox Touch access a NAS?
Vortexbox is not simply server software -- it is a complete operating system, based on Fedora Linux. So installing Vortexbox means _replacing_ the Linux operating system on your NAS. As NAS OSs are usually very customized distros for that particular hardware, I would be surprised if you could put Vortexbox on it. Does the NAS even have an x86 CPU? As an alternative, why not run SBS on your PC but use the NAS as the library, instead of having a separate copy on your PC? If you are running the regular SBS there is nothing that says the library has to be on the same machine. -- aubuti aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=85472 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Can a Squeezebox Touch access a NAS?
aubuti;613380 Wrote: Vortexbox is not simply server software -- it is a complete operating system, based on Fedora Linux. So installing Vortexbox means _replacing_ the Linux operating system on your NAS. As NAS OSs are usually very customized distros for that particular hardware, I would be surprised if you could put Vortexbox on it. Does the NAS even have an x86 CPU? As an alternative, why not run SBS on your PC but use the NAS as the library, instead of having a separate copy on your PC? If you are running the regular SBS there is nothing that says the library has to be on the same machine. Hi aubuti : Good Point, are you saying that I share that NAS Folder from the PC that is running the SBS and My Touch should see the NAS library so I do not need to maintain another copy of the Music library on the PC? I will try this when I get home tomorrow, Thank You so much, This forum is awesome!! -- oh6781 oh6781's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=43906 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=85472 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Can a Squeezebox Touch access a NAS?
oh6781;613398 Wrote: Hi aubuti : Good Point, are you saying that I share that NAS Folder from the PC that is running the SBS and My Touch should see the NAS library so I do not need to maintain another copy of the Music library on the PC? I will try this when I get home tomorrow, Thank You so much, This forum is awesome!! Right. Basically you access the NAS folder from the PC that is running SBS. Then in SBS Settings Basic settings specify the NAS folder as your music library. If you are running Windows on your pc there are two ways you could specify the NAS folder. One is by assigning a drive letter (using Windows Explorer). The other is by using the UNC address, which takes the form \\servername\foldername. I don't run SBS on Windows so I am not sure which is the preferred approach, but if one doesn't work, try the other. Or there are plenty others around here who know the answer. -- aubuti aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=85472 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Can a Squeezebox Touch access a NAS?
rpieket;609017 Wrote: Thanks Mnyb and amcluesent. I will keep my current setup as it is, then. Hey Logitech. How about letting the Touch mount network drives? It's getting more common by the day. -Ron. The main performance bottleneck would be collecting and storing the meta information. I had some bad experience with network players (terratec) that attempted to scan (network-) folders collect meta data AND play music all rolled into one box; it wasn't good at either. I really like slimdevices approach of devided labour that a media player should dumb in a way that is should be stellar at playing audio but not much anything else. Leave the meta storage to a silly storage server, NAS or otherwise. The Touch seems to throw this design a bit overboard. -- th00ht Squeezebox Classis Squeezebox Touch Squeezebox Server 7.6.0 - 31827 / Arch64 Quad 303 + Two Quad Electrostats 'last.fm' (http://www.last.fm/user/th00ht) th00ht's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15656 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=85472 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Can a Squeezebox Touch access a NAS?
rpieket;609017 Wrote: Hey Logitech. How about letting the Touch mount network drives? It's getting more common by the day. They are letting the Touch mount network drives. It's just that you have to work at it a bit (see the NFS thread that amcluesent referenced), and your performance will probably be lousy unless you mount the database/cache on a USB drive or SD card attached to the Touch. And even then your performance may be lousy. You can do it -- it's just not supported because it's a problematic configuration. Those are two different things. If you're going to have a NAS running anyway, a better solution is to use a NAS that can run SBS. -- aubuti aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=85472 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Can a Squeezebox Touch access a NAS?
Some have done it with an NFS share it can work but is unsoported, scan can be sloow, Touch is not a great server if you runned it on computer you notice and no web-UI and other limitations. But you definitely NOT want to mount a drive over wifi :-) and it's is not recommended to have server on wifi even if ti works spledidly for many . This combo would yield 3 or4 times the normal wifi traffic. Is drobo wired or wifi ? here is how the music file would travel. Drobo---(wifi)---router---(wifi)---Touch---(wifi)---Router---(wifi)---Boom And with wired interface on router and server (Touch) Drobo---router---Touch---router---(wifi)---Boom -- Mnyb Main hifi: Touch + CIA PS +MeridianG68J MeridianHD621 MeridianG98DH MeridianDSP5200 MeridianDSP5200HC MleridianDSP3100 +Rel Stadium 3 sub. Bedroom/Office: Boom Kitchen: SB3 + powered Fostex PM0.4 Misc use: Radio (with battery) iPad 64gB wifi +3g with iPengHD SqueezePad Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=85472 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Can a Squeezebox Touch access a NAS?
Thanks Mnyb and amcluesent. I will keep my current setup as it is, then. Hey Logitech. How about letting the Touch mount network drives? It's getting more common by the day. -Ron. -- rpieket rpieket's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=31862 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=85472 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Can a Squeezebox Touch access a NAS?
It's not supported by some people have reported success in configuring the Touch to mount an NFS share which the embedded Squeezebox Server can index. Search on this Forum. -- amcluesent amcluesent's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10286 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=85472 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
