Mark Lanctot;243619 Wrote: > Well, as with any choice in life, what works for you may not work for > me. > > Michael is pretty adamant that slimCD is not meant to be used > full-time. He believes it requires too much reconfiguration to be > turned into a server. > > With regards to Ubuntu, if you want headless there's always the Server > version. And CC is totally headless.
Michael says not to use it full-time, but SlimCD has proven to be the holy grail in my quest for the perfect music server. I have been running it on my fanless and headless nano-ITX machine with a 750 GByte drive for close to six months now. It is always on and playing all the time. The system never has to be rebooted, but I have found that I have to restart Slimserver once a month or so. That's not a big deal - I log in via an ssh session from another machine in the house. I put more flac files on it's drive using smb. Maybe I don't remember what I had to go through now, but I don't think it was all that difficult to get running. I put six months of intensive use up against Michael's advice and recommend it. -Ron -- Ron F. *Squeezebox setup:* wireless SB3 -> CI Audio VDA.2 DAC + VAC.1 PSU *Main rig:* NAD 7600 + NAD 2600A -> Phase Tech PC-6.5 speakers *Headphone rig:* Headroom Max -> Sennheiser 650s *Music Server:* Nano-ITX computer running SlimCD + 750 GByte HDD -> Netgear wireless router *Other stuff:* NAD C542 CDP, NAD 6300 Tape, Monster 5100 Power conditioner, Outlaw Audio cables ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ron F.'s Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5616 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=38519 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
