I'm about to re-engineer my home network with an eye toward using an NAS
and a Squeezebox as a source for a high-end audio system.
A brief search didn't uncover this particular configuration, so here
are my questions:
- -(re: network)- I want to use 2 (wifi) laptops with three devices
conne
The Squeezebox system requires a "server". This can either be
SqueezeNetwork, or SqueezeCenter. SqueezeCenter normally runs on any
kind of PC, but has been made to work on some NAS devices.
My personal suggestion is to setup a cheap, low power Linux PC to act
as the "NAS" and SqueezeCenter serv
Take a look at these pages:
http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cgi?BeginnersGuideToServers
http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cgi?NetworkDesign
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1. Yes, this should work fine, but...
2. You need to run Squeezecenter (SC, the server application) somewhere
to be able to listen to you local files.
SC can be installed on any PC or on some NAS devices.
It's also possible to run SC on the PC and store the audio files on the
NAS.
Make sure that
slimpy;276139 Wrote:
> 1. Yes, this should work fine, but...
> 2. You need to run Squeezecenter (SC, the server application) somewhere
> to be able to listen to you local files.
> SC can be installed on any PC or on some NAS devices.
> It's also possible to run SC on the PC and store the audio f
6sigma;276085 Wrote:
> I'm about to re-engineer my home network with an eye toward using an NAS
> and a Squeezebox as a source for a high-end audio system.
>
> A brief search didn't uncover this particular configuration, so here
> are my questions:
>
> > >
- -(re: network)- I want to use 2
One last question. Given the need for a server running SqueezeCenter,
what are the pro's and con's of attaching an external hard drive to the
server (Firewire or USB) vs. connecting an NAS device to the router? In
either case there's a server running SqueezeCenter. Do I gain
performance, reliabili
6sigma;276162 Wrote:
> One last question. Given the need for a server running SqueezeCenter,
> what are the pro's and con's of attaching an external hard drive to the
> server (Firewire or USB) vs. connecting an NAS device to the router? In
> either case there's a server running SqueezeCenter. Do
I'd recommend a really light-weight PC running Windows or Linux to use
as a server, in lieu of an NAS. That way, you're insured of always
being able to run the latest version of SqueezeCenter, instead of being
at the mercy of someone porting the latest version to your particular
NAS.
Check out l
