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JJZolx;503195 Wrote: > 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. Hi there Agreed I went to my Local Tip and got an old Pentium IV computer FOR NOTHING I installed a SUSE Linux system on it and attached a SATA disk controller card (cost around 16 GBP) on it. Connected 2 SATA X 1TB drives and squeezebox server on it and it now sits quietly in a cupboard -- I don't even have a console connected to it. Works a treat -- and even with FLAC encoding you can get a HUGE amount of music on 2TB of disk space. -- Haven't used anything like that yet. For an AUDIO SERVER any old crappy computer will do -- there are plenty of places to get one for NOTHING from. Cheers jimbo -- jimbo45 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ jimbo45's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=20276 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
