Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Touch Setup Advice
JohnSwenson;572424 Wrote: Yes, you can use a VortexBox as a general purpose network storage device, you can mount it on a Windows computer and it will work just like any other drive. John S. Not sure what you mean by 'you can mount it on a Windows computer'. Do you mean physically or via the router? Can you still run it as a linux SBS if you also use it to back up to? -- morthan morthan's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=30644 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=81490 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Touch Setup Advice
morthan;572427 Wrote: Not sure what you mean by 'you can mount it on a Windows computer'. Do you mean physically or via the router? Can you still run it as a linux SBS if you also use it to back up to? As a samba file share via the router ,thats the idea so it will appear as any other drive in my computer yes it will still be an SBS server. This will be how you would send new music to it just drag and drop. -- Mnyb Main hifi: Touch + CIA PS +MeridianG68J MeridianHD621 and assorted amps SiriuS, Classe' Primare and Dynadio speakers, Contour 4 Contour Center, and Contour 1.3SE for the rear ch. Rel Stadium 3 sub. Bedroom/Office: Boom Kitchen: SB3 + powered Fostex PM0.4 Miscellaneous use: Radio (with battery) I use a Controller various ir-remotes and a Eee-PC with squeezeplay to control this Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=81490 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Touch Setup Advice
Mnyb;572428 Wrote: As a samba file share via the router ,thats the idea so it will appear as any other drive in my computer yes it will still be an SBS server. This will be how you would send new music to it just drag and drop. sorry for being a complete ignoramus but what is a 'samba file share'? -- morthan morthan's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=30644 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=81490 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Touch Setup Advice
morthan;572451 Wrote: sorry for being a complete ignoramus but what is a 'samba file share'? Samba is a program that runs on linux computers (such as the Touch or VortexBox), which makes its drives visible on other computers over a network. On windows (at least XP, I don't has vista or Win7) you can bring up windows explorer and click on network neighborhood, click on windows network and you should see the vortexbox, click on that and you will see the drives that it is exporting. Click on the one you want and you can read or copy anything into it. If you right click on the drive name you get a menu that lets you mount it, this means it gets a drive letter like other local drives, that way any windows program can read or write it just like it was a local drive on the computer. John S. -- JohnSwenson JohnSwenson's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5974 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=81490 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Touch Setup Advice
morthan;572179 Wrote: Thanks for your reply again. You've been very helpful. Could you please expand on the above? Whats 'vortebox'? How do you access it via a web interface? Sounds like a good solution but maybe beyond my technical capability. vortexbox is essentially a liunx operating system (see link) that is setup for SqueezeboxServer and disc ripping (among other things). One can also purchase a vortexbox appliance (a small computer already running Vortexbox). Read all about it here: http://vortexbox.org/about/ This may not be the answer for you. One has really four basic options. 1. run mysqueezebox.com (don't need your own computer on, but can't play your own music either. 2. Run SqueezeboxServer on your regular home computer (desktop, laptop, Mac or Windows, etc.). Easy to install SbS and point it to your own music. Downside is that you either need to leave it on 24/7, set up Wake on Lan, if your computer has this, or turn it on an off when you want to use your players. 3. Have a dedicated music server that is on 24/7. This could be a windows machine, a Mac, a machine running some flavor of linux (vortexbox for example is already setup for serving SbS) 4. connect USB drive to TOUCH and serve your SB players with tinySbS inside the Touch. You can also do a combination of 1 and 2. That is, use mysb.com with your computer off for internet radio, pandora, etc., and use SbS with computer on, only when you want to listen to your own music. -- garym garym's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17325 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=81490 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Touch Setup Advice
garym;572243 Wrote: vortexbox is essentially a liunx operating system (see link) that is setup for SqueezeboxServer and disc ripping (among other things). One can also purchase a vortexbox appliance (a small computer already running Vortexbox). Read all about it here: http://vortexbox.org/about/ This may not be the answer for you. One has really four basic options. 1. run mysqueezebox.com (don't need your own computer on, but can't play your own music either. 2. Run SqueezeboxServer on your regular home computer (desktop, laptop, Mac or Windows, etc.). Easy to install SbS and point it to your own music. Downside is that you either need to leave it on 24/7, set up Wake on Lan, if your computer has this, or turn it on an off when you want to use your players. 3. Have a dedicated music server that is on 24/7. This could be a windows machine, a Mac, a machine running some flavor of linux (vortexbox for example is already setup for serving SbS) 4. connect USB drive to TOUCH and serve your SB players with tinySbS inside the Touch. You can also do a combination of 1 and 2. That is, use mysb.com with your computer off for internet radio, pandora, etc., and use SbS with computer on, only when you want to listen to your own music. Thanks garym. I have looked into vortexbox and it looks good. One thing I am unsure about is whether it can also be used to store other media such as photos, videos and be used for backup? I am assumning that you cant use a Windows backup porgram on it? If it cant do back up can it still be used as a general media server rather than just a squeezebox one? -- morthan morthan's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=30644 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=81490 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Touch Setup Advice
morthan;572417 Wrote: Thanks garym. I have looked into vortexbox and it looks good. One thing I am unsure about is whether it can also be used to store other media such as photos, videos and be used for backup? I am assumning that you cant use a Windows backup porgram on it? If it cant do back up can it still be used as a general media server rather than just a squeezebox one? Yes, you can use a VortexBox as a general purpose network storage device, you can mount it on a Windows computer and it will work just like any other drive. Just make sure you don't do general backup to the directory where the music is stored! I had this happen once and every little bleep and boing in all the games wound up as songs to SBS! John S. -- JohnSwenson JohnSwenson's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5974 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=81490 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
[SlimDevices: Touch] Touch Setup Advice
I have just purchased but not have not yet received a Touch to go with my 2 Booms, 2 radios, 2 controllers, 1 Duet. I currently have my library on a Win7 computer and connect all players wirelessly. When I get the Touch I am thinking of either attaching an external hard drive via usb and running all my music from this or alternatively using an Asus eb1501 (netbook without the screen) wirelessly as the server. My question is which setup should i use? I know the Asus netbook option is not dissimilar to what I am currently doing but I am prepared to leave this on all the time as opposed to my main computer which I turn off at night which means I dont have access to my library. Either option will solve this but which option is best? Any advice appreciated especially from people who may have done both. -- morthan morthan's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=30644 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=81490 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Touch Setup Advice
morthan;572010 Wrote: I have just purchased but not have not yet received a Touch to go with my 2 Booms, 2 radios, 2 controllers, 1 Duet. I currently have my library on a Win7 computer and connect all players wirelessly. When I get the Touch I am thinking of either attaching an external hard drive via usb and running all my music from this or alternatively using an Asus eb1501 (netbook without the screen) wirelessly as the server. My question is which setup should i use? I know the Asus netbook option is not dissimilar to what I am currently doing but I am prepared to leave this on all the time as opposed to my main computer which I turn off at night which means I dont have access to my library. Either option will solve this but which option is best? Any advice appreciated especially from people who may have done both. With this many players, I think you'll be much happier with the performance from the netbook running SbS on 24/7. The Touch will work, and probably serve all these SB players OK (although the number is probably stretching it for tinySbS). And if everything is WIFI, that's a limiting factor too. You will really be much better served if you connect your netbook with ethernet to the ROUTER. Then run all your players WIFI. Otherwise you have two wireless hops: netbook to router, then router to players. And you don't need a netbook. Take any old computer, install vortexbox as the system, put it in a closet near your router, and make this your server. Once setup you don't need keyboard or monitor. You can access the server from any other computer on your network via a web interface. -- garym garym's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17325 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=81490 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Touch Setup Advice
Our wiki has some info for you: http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/Squeezebox_Touch_as_a_Home_Music_Server http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/Setting_Up_Squeezebox_Touch_Server http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/Troubleshooting_Squeezebox_Touch_Server Kudos to whoever improves the articles all the time. What they say: We cannot recommend using Squeezebox Touch Server with more than 2 additional Squeezebox players. Above that, a PC or Mac running Squeezebox Server is recommended. it may still work . With your asus solution you will have the web-UI and options to run plugins. And the asus may even have the cpu to do some transcoding AAC for the BOOM for example or 24/96 files for the duet etc. -- Mnyb Main hifi: Touch + CIA PS +MeridianG68J MeridianHD621 and assorted amps SiriuS, Classe' Primare and Dynadio speakers, Contour 4 Contour Center, and Contour 1.3SE for the rear ch. Rel Stadium 3 sub. Bedroom/Office: Boom Kitchen: SB3 + powered Fostex PM0.4 Miscellaneous use: Radio (with battery) I use a Controller various ir-remotes and a Eee-PC with squeezeplay to control this Mnyb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=4143 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=81490 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] Touch Setup Advice
Mnyb;572017 Wrote: Our wiki has some info for you: http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/Squeezebox_Touch_as_a_Home_Music_Server http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/Setting_Up_Squeezebox_Touch_Server http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/Troubleshooting_Squeezebox_Touch_Server Kudos to whoever improves the articles all the time. What they say: We cannot recommend using Squeezebox Touch Server with more than 2 additional Squeezebox players. Above that, a PC or Mac running Squeezebox Server is recommended. it may still work . With your asus solution you will have the web-UI and options to run plugins. And the asus may even have the cpu to do some transcoding AAC for the BOOM for example or 24/96 files for the duet etc. Thanks so much for this post. -- carib carib's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=34240 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=81490 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
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garym;572015 Wrote: Take any old computer, install vortexbox as the system, put it in a closet near your router, and make this your server. Once setup you don't need keyboard or monitor. You can access the server from any other computer on your network via a web interface. Thanks for your reply again. You've been very helpful. Could you please expand on the above? Whats 'vortebox'? How do you access it via a web interface? Sounds like a good solution but maybe beyond my technical capability. -- morthan morthan's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=30644 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=81490 ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
