[SlimDevices: Touch] Newbie question re: streaming audio from laptop?

2010-12-22 Thread JeepersCreepers
Thanks garym krochat :D My laptop has a intel core 2 duo cpu p8600 @2.4 GHz. Also 4Gb RAM. Running Windows Home Premium 32 bit. Most of the files I want to play are FLAC files. I know that it is also possible to plug HDD's and SD cards into the SB Touchs' USB port, I have a couple of powered

[SlimDevices: Touch] Newbie question re: streaming audio from laptop?

2010-12-22 Thread Mnyb
What can be a snag is the wifi bandwidth you cant obviously download torrent at fill tilt over the wifi at same time as streaming music ;) But if heavy downloading is expected you can always temporarily connect the laptop with a Ethernet cable to the router to not disturb the music . Is this a

[SlimDevices: Touch] Newbie question re: streaming audio from laptop?

2010-12-22 Thread JeepersCreepers
Thanks Mnyb :D Does anyone have any news on using the Touch with HDD on USB connection? Does it work well? Thanks -- JeepersCreepers JeepersCreepers's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=42206 View

[SlimDevices: Touch] Newbie question re: streaming audio from laptop?

2010-12-22 Thread aubuti
JeepersCreepers;596330 Wrote: Does anyone have any news on using the Touch with HDD on USB connection? Does it work well? _Volumes_ have been written about that topic in this forum. Browse through this forum and you'll find plenty. My summary would be (1) sometimes it works, sometimes it

[SlimDevices: Touch] Newbie question re: streaming audio from laptop?

2010-12-21 Thread JeepersCreepers
Hi, this is my first post so bare in mind that my knowledge is pretty much zero :D I am seriously considering getting a SB Touch, but really wanted to know to what extent streaming from a laptop HDD running via Wi-FI will affect the general operation of other programs on the laptop? I use the

[SlimDevices: Touch] Newbie question re: streaming audio from laptop?

2010-12-21 Thread garym
for about a year I used my laptop (an old dell dual core processor) for running SbS (streaming music) to my SB players. I had no issues whatsoever. The music is streaming in the background and I'm happily surfing the web, running programs, even running Stat programs with SAS and 100,000 data

[SlimDevices: Touch] Newbie question re: streaming audio from laptop?

2010-12-21 Thread krochat
JeepersCreepers;596115 Wrote: really wanted to know to what extent streaming from a laptop HDD running via Wi-FI will affect the general operation of other programs on the laptop? I use the laptop for a number of other things most of the time, and wondered if I needed the laptop to be