UPnP support could be a solution, and outsourcing the entire SC instance
would be most desirable (with VPS prices these days, it's not too far
over the horizon for DIY).
I think the OP has a point. Cost of such an embedded-SC device could be
contained if it was an 'NSLU2'
fattybacon;348262 Wrote:
I wouldn't go as far as a cd drive in, but might be interested in a hard
drie, but this is exactly the problem everyone I show the the SB3 to.
They all love the display, the remote, the interface and, above all,
the quality. Then they ask where the music comes from
fattybacon: I understand what you mean; but I'm not sure it could make
sense from a commercial viewpoint.
To turn the SBR into a SqueezeBoxServer would almost certainly
require improvemnts to the processor/memory plus additional interfaces
for usb ports etc. etc which would price it above a
amey01;339858 Wrote:
Sometime or another, it's essential!
I personally would put a hard drive in it as well. And some sort of CD
drive to rip.
I really think something like this is what stands between keeping the
Squeezebox (and other music servers) a geeky niche and having it become
malaugh;339998 Wrote:
They may even be able to re-use the Duet Receier. As far I as I know
that is just a small Linux computer anyway.
fattybacon;348262 Wrote:
As for people saying that what you are asking for is a computer so use a
computer, I think they are missing the point that the
pnharrison;348275 Wrote:
http://www.ripfactory.com/ripserver.html
http://www.qnap.com
And Netgear too:
http://www.netgear.com/Products/Storage.aspx
The new ReadyNas Pro looks nice.
Mike
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Michael Valera
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Logitech Streaming Media Business Unit
fattybacon;348262 Wrote:
I wouldn't go as far as a cd drive in, but might be interested in a hard
drie, but this is exactly the problem everyone I show the the SB3 to.
They all love the display, the remote, the interface and, above all,
the quality. Then they ask where the music comes from
fattybacon;348262 Wrote:
They all love the display, the remote, the interface and, above all, the
quality. Then they ask where the music comes from and I tell them I have
a server running upstairs. And that's all she wrote. NO SALE.
Basically, they'd all love a SB3 or Duet or Boom but none
aubuti;348411 Wrote:
Actually it would be a huge stretch to call the SB Receiver a computer.
Judging from this and a previous post about it running linux I think
some people are confusing the capabilities of the SB Receiver (which is
really a dumb appliance) and the SB *Controller* (which is
malaugh;340392 Wrote:
Its not a saving, it just allows you to stream music from your NAS so
you do not need to turn your computer on.
And how is this proposed product _not_ a computer?? As you've described
it, it runs server software (SC), it will need to have some kind of
read/write storage
pfarrel
I was thinking that the whole thing would code just over $100. They
may even be able to re-use the Duet Receier. As far I as I know that
is just a small Linux computer anyway. I think once you start adding
hard drives, CD burner etc, you start needing a a screen, and it turns
into a
malaugh wrote:
I was thinking that the whole thing would code just over $100. They
may even be able to re-use the Duet Receier. As far I as I know that
is just a small Linux computer anyway. I think once you start adding
hard drives, CD burner etc, you start needing a a screen, and it turns
amey01;339858 Wrote:
...granny or pop could run down to their hi-fi dealer and come back with
something that they could plug in and press Play - just like they do
with a CD player.
Except there'd be nothing on it to play. S/he'd still have to know how
to rip music to it, so it's not quite
amey01;339858 Wrote:
Sometime or another, it's essential!
I personally would put a hard drive in it as well. And some sort of CD
drive to rip.
I really think something like this is what stands between keeping the
Squeezebox (and other music servers) a geeky niche and having it become
pfarrel
I think you misunderstood me:
what I want is:
Hard disks - NONE
Power supply - same wall wart as a squeezebox
Disk controller - NONE
The idea woul be to use the NAS as the disk drive for the squeezecenter
box, or to have the option of adding a USB drive.
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malaugh
amey
Thenks for the post, I never knew the Olive Music Server and the Yamaha
existed (Opus), however I think they are solutions in search of a
problem. The problem is not ripping the music, or storing on a hard
drive; computers do an excellent job of that, and anything less is a
compromise.
malaugh;340079 Wrote:
The problm eis how to get to your music aefter you have ripped it
withiut turning on your computer.
So you're going to buy and power two things (NAS this slim thing)
instead of using the computer you already have? How is that a saving?
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radish
i'd really like to see a controller with a learning remote function. i
don't use the volume control of my sb3, but every other function i do
use. it'd be nice to program the volume of my preamp into the
controller. hell, if logitech would wrap it in an aluminum enclosure
with corresponding
Full moon in a few days.
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I would like to switch my music to a NAS. The options are:
Keep running my PC to run Squeezecenter.
Make a NAS from an old PC and run Squeezecenter on that
Type quirky commands to install Squeezecenter on the NAS and hope it
works.
I would like another option. How about if Slim Devices
malaugh wrote:
I would like to switch my music to a NAS. The options are:
Keep running my PC to run Squeezecenter.
Make a NAS from an old PC and run Squeezecenter on that
The alternative is to get a cheap PC, nearly any will work, and run
SqueezeCenter on it. Move the music to the cheap PC,
Sometime or another, it's essential!
I personally would put a hard drive in it I think. And some sort of CD
drive to rip.
I really think something like this is what stands between keeping the
Squeezebox (and other music servers) a geeky niche and having it become
mainstream. That is, if granny
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