Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] What format does a Network HD need to be to run Touch (or other Squeezebox devices)

2009-11-14 Thread bluegaspode
andyg;483121 Wrote: On Nov 8, 2009, at 8:43 AM, Mark Miksis wrote: [color=blue] Yeah I could do this. I'm just a bit worried it's a slippery slope into providing non-threaded builds for all platforms. :) It's a shame Pogo doesn't just use standard Debian. I guess a non-threaded

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] What format does a Network HD need to be to run Touch (or other Squeezebox devices)

2009-11-09 Thread JJZolx
metalbob;483304 Wrote: It will be close enough to my router to keep it hardwired. So, to keep it simple, would a network drive - not an actual server - connected to my router need to be a specific format? Again... It's not planned that Touch will support this. But a disk in a network drive

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] What format does a Network HD need to be to run Touch (or other Squeezebox devices)

2009-11-09 Thread metalbob
JJZolx;483321 Wrote: Again... It's not planned that Touch will support this. But a disk in a network drive (NAS) would be formatted with whatever file system the NAS uses. It won't matter to Squeezebox Server. And it usually wouldn't be anything that you'd worry about. You either buy the

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] What format does a Network HD need to be to run Touch (or other Squeezebox devices)

2009-11-09 Thread JJZolx
metalbob;483499 Wrote: But is an external drive connected to a router technically considered an NAS? It's not a self-powered server, it's just an external drive. That's the setup I was asking about. For the consumer devices that we're talking about, if it's attached to the network, then

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] What format does a Network HD need to be to run Touch (or other Squeezebox devices)

2009-11-09 Thread metalbob
JJZolx;483504 Wrote: For the consumer devices that we're talking about, if it's attached to the network, then yes, it's an NAS. (There are other types of disk storage device that attach to networks, but they're not targeted or priced for consumers.) Disk drives can't be attached to

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] What format does a Network HD need to be to run Touch (or other Squeezebox devices)

2009-11-08 Thread Mark Miksis
JohnSwenson;482611 Wrote: There are a number of people that have used the sheevaplug as a sever, it costs $99 and looks like a wallwart, it takes about 3 watts so it won't cost too much in energy. It has an ethernet port and a USB jack, you plug it into the router, switch etc and a USB drive

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] What format does a Network HD need to be to run Touch (or other Squeezebox devices)

2009-11-08 Thread awy
Mark Miksis;482990 Wrote: Pogo, by default has no perl and if you install openpogo, it's a non-threaded perl. This won't work with Sbs. Which is a bit of a pity since we use a non-threaded perl for TinySC (also ARM) because it is substantially smaller, and somewhat faster. I guess we could

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] What format does a Network HD need to be to run Touch (or other Squeezebox devices)

2009-11-08 Thread Mark Miksis
awy;483034 Wrote: Which is a bit of a pity since we use a non-threaded perl for TinySC (also ARM) because it is substantially smaller, and somewhat faster. I guess we could look at providing non-threaded version of the various perl-XS libraries for the ARM build. Well, that would be really

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] What format does a Network HD need to be to run Touch (or other Squeezebox devices)

2009-11-08 Thread Andy Grundman
On Nov 8, 2009, at 1:32 PM, usch wrote: Would non-threaded mean that it cannot run the web server? No, we do not use any features of threaded Perl, non-threaded Perl works just fine. ___ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] What format does a Network HD need to be to run Touch (or other Squeezebox devices)

2009-11-08 Thread Mark Miksis
If a future SbS includes those non-threaded modules, I will volunteer to figure out how to build an .ipk. I think it's just a .deb in a different archive format, but I haven't looked. In any case, a plug targeted release should also remove some unneeded stuff. -- Mark Miksis

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] What format does a Network HD need to be to run Touch (or other Squeezebox devices)

2009-11-08 Thread Dean Blackketter
http://handhelds.org/moin/moin.cgi/Ipkg and also: http://handhelds.org/moin/moin.cgi/BuildingIpkgs On Nov 8, 2009, at 6:16 PM, Mark Miksis wrote: If a future SbS includes those non-threaded modules, I will volunteer to figure out how to build an .ipk. I think it's just a .deb in a

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] What format does a Network HD need to be to run Touch (or other Squeezebox devices)

2009-11-08 Thread metalbob
pfarrell;482585 Wrote: usch wrote: I don't think you will be very happy with a 1TB library behind a wireless LAN. I think you can generalize this. A terabyte of data is huge, and will take a long time to read, let alone write, over a IDE disk channel. There is no way that one can do

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] What format does a Network HD need to be to run Touch (or other Squeezebox devices)

2009-11-07 Thread usch
JJZolx;482594 Wrote: If folks really are going to be using this standalone with a USB disk attached, it should have had two USB ports to facilitate backups of the music library disk. Yeah, you can add a USB hub, but... You have to get new files onto the USB drive somehow anyway. A

[SlimDevices: Touch] What format does a Network HD need to be to run Touch (or other Squeezebox devices)

2009-11-05 Thread metalbob
I am in the market for the Touch when it is released. I am in the process of ripping my entire collection to lossless and want to get a network drive ready. What format (FAT32, NTFS, etc.)does the drive need to be for the Touch to read it? I am running a Mac setup at this point, but am using

Re: [SlimDevices: Touch] What format does a Network HD need to be to run Touch (or other Squeezebox devices)

2009-11-05 Thread JJZolx
metalbob;482188 Wrote: I am in the market for the Touch when it is released. I am in the process of ripping my entire collection to lossless and want to get a network drive ready. What format (FAT32, NTFS, etc.)does the drive need to be for the Touch to read it? I am running a Mac setup