Re: Logitechs Squeezebox Duet to Crash the Sonos Party?

[Kevin Hawkins <yahoogroupskh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

SlimServer is available pre loaded on several NAS units eg QNAP,
Infrant/Netgear, Thecus, Synology(?) , although it seems it's
performance can be disappointing with a few players / many tracks.
Sometimes these are hard to update or  lag behind current release
versions though.

K

Jon Wilkins wrote:
>
> Given many of these NAS boxes run linux (of one form or another) I'd
> have thought it would be relatively easy to hack in something like
> firefly - allowing your NAS to also provide the "streaming"
> functionality expected from a "PC".
>
> On Jan 6, 2008 11:10 PM, Kevin Hawkins <yahoogroupskh@xxxxxxx
> <mailto:yahoogroupskh%40googlemail.com>>
wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > The setup is still dependent on PC software AFAIK except when
connected
> > via SqueezeCentre to their services or other streaming services
eg
> > Rhapsody, Slacker, Pandora, mp3Locker, etc . I think you can
place your
> > own tracks into mp3Locker and stream them from there without a PC
if you
> > wish. Local NAS needs the PC to manage the DB, UI / remote and
any
> > transcoding. There is no track limit.
> >
>
>