PaulEast;646276 Wrote: > Do you think there is anything unusual in what I am trying to do? I > would have thought there would have been hundreds (or even thousands) > of SB users trying to do exactly as I am. > > I quoted the make and model of the NAS because I was beginning to fear > that "all NASs are not equal" but I rather hoped that a big company > like Western Digital wouldn't have just launched a new NAS product > without it being capable in this area. > > Can anyone tell me whether installing Squeezebox Server on a My Book > Live NAS is a viable option? > > Thanks for the suggestion of hibernating the PC. I will try it again > but the problem last time was that in this spell of warmer weather, the > fan wanted What you're trying to do isn't unheard of but it is a little unusual, and more important, it is outside the scope of the Touch. As noted, you basically have three options: (1) use TinySBS with a USB drive, (2) run SBS on a pc, accessing a music library on the pc and/or NAS, or (3) run SBS on the NAS.
All NASs are definitely not created equal, but in fairness to WD, NAS stands for Network Attached _Storage_. Most consumer-grade NAS devices like that are meant to run file server software, and not music server software. And generally they do a fine job of acting as a file server. I'm not sure about your exact model, but see this thread for some info about installing SBS on a WD My Book Live: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=84735 . It's not as straightforward as installing SBS on a regular pc. It sounds like you're trying to suspend the pc, not hibernate it. Either are viable options, but a big difference is that when hibernating everything in RAM is written to disk, and then the pc is powered off completely, so there can be no fan whirring if it is hibernated. The downside of hibernate is that it takes a little longer to come out of hibernation than it does to come out of suspend; the downside of suspend is that the continues to draw some minimal power to hold everything in RAM, and that might make the fan come on. -- aubuti ------------------------------------------------------------------------ aubuti's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2074 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=89286 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
