verycd;662844 Wrote: > Thank you, everyone. > > I am confused with different appliances like "server", "media station", > "network drives", "NAS","hard drive cloud edition", "media sharing > device", etc. > > Can they function as a stand-alone server for the Touch via a home > router? Obviously some have no storage but more USB ports for external > drives. Some have optical drives built-in. They don't seem to be real > servers (with cpu - I guess) so they can't run program to download > files without being connected to a real computer that is on.
a server is a computer running software. a NAS is a specialized computer running software, that may or may not be powerful enough to run SbS. To really use a SqueezeBox system, you need a computer running SqueezeBoxServer. This computer could be a windows machine or Mac. Doesn't have to be that powerful. Could be a netbook, etc. If you don't want to use a full blown computer, then you can use a NAS, but you'll pay more in most cases for a NAS that is powerful enough to run SbS well. Or you can use a dedicated computer that mostly just acts as a server (something like a vortexbox appliance). If you'd like a standalone, "headless" (no monitor or keyboard) computer that acts as a powerful SbS server, I'd recommend a vortexbox appliance. It it plug and play. Otherwise, I'd just use whatever computer you're comfortable with (windows machine or Mac) and run SbS on it. All these "harddrives" that you can connect to a router for data availability will not be useful for you in running SbS. -- garym System 1: Vortexbox Appliance (1.10) > SbS 7.6.2 > Transporter, Touch, Boom, Radio w/Battery (all ethernet except Radio) System 2: Win7(64) laptop > SbS 7.6.2 > Touch>Benchmark DAC I, Boom, Radio w/Battery (all ethernet except Radio and laptop) Retired: SB3, Duet Receiver Controlled at both locations with: iPhone (iPeng), iPad (iPengHD & SqueezePad), CONTROLLER, or SqueezePlay 7.6 on Win7(64) laptop Ripping (FLAC) - dbpoweramp, Additional Tagging - mp3tag ------------------------------------------------------------------------ garym's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17325 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=90820 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
