------------------------------------------------------------------------ A poll associated with this post was created, to vote and see the results, please visit http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=73380 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Question: Using the Touch's embedded SBS... - I plan to use it as my main server/library - I plan to use it occasionally, such as when a friend brings around a USB drive - I have no interest it using it at all really ------------------------------------------------------------------------
georgeh;502929 Wrote: > ^Good to know, thanks. I may have a network bandwidth issue streaming > FLAC, particularly for 24/96 music, but there are ways to solve that. As the others have said, the older players won't be able to play the 24/96 content and the Touch won't be able to transcode/resample for those players. Back to the 'two Touch' approach... I'd avoid it. It purposely works around perhaps the single most elegant thing about the Squeezebox system: the ability to maintain a central server that feeds numerous Squeezeboxes on your network. With a central server you don't need to keep a sync'd MP3 mirror of your FLAC library. Squeezebox Server does any transcoding on the fly. With a central server the other Squeezeboxes will be served the highest quality possible stream, not MP3. If you're serving 16/44.1 content then they'll get the original FLAC. If it's 24/96 then Squeezebox Server will downsample it to 24/48 and stream it in FLAC. You don't need a NAS to do this. A NAS solves nothing for the application of a Squeezebox music server. Set up an inexpensive, headless PC with a single music library drive and make sure you keep a backup of the library. You don't need RAID, and you don't need the expense of a NAS. -- JJZolx Jim ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=73380 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
