There's a nice Christmas surprise. Enjoy! 1) The quality of the internet radio station will affect sound quality, and the most important variable is the probably the bitrate at which the station streams. This usually doesn't change from track to track, so I don't know how to explain the sound being different from one song to another unless you changed stations between tracks. Also, if your bandwidth is not adequate for the streaming it will be manifested as interruptions in the music, not as subtle differences in sound quality.
2) It depends entirely on your comfort level with the two options -- there is no "right" answer. I am fairly certain (though not 100%) that the Vortexbox software supports external USB drives. Note that Vortexbox is not a "program" per se, but rather an entire replacement operating system for the computer. So if you install Vortexbox it will overwrite all the WinXP stuff on it. If the computer is borderline in terms of computing capacity (CPU speed, RAM, etc), Vortexbox or any Linux distro will make more efficient use of the limited computing resources than Windows. 3) Any brand of HDD will do if you're connecting it to an external computer running SBS. Things get a little pickier if you use TinySBS, the limited-function server that is built-in to the Touch. -- aubuti ------------------------------------------------------------------------ aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=84302 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
