Really depends what you want your system for. Re the NAS systems I used, they would work with PCs as well as Macs (I had both at the time, and used both Windows and Mac OS X), but as I said, ultimately they did not work out as very reliable, or fast, so I reverted to using USB hard drives. I"m not sure if you could use a Raspberry Pi - for a cheap DIY job. If you have an old laptop that could also do the job. You could use something like a Mac mini as a server, with an external hard drive - though that would cost more. Also, some of the earlier NAS models had very underpowered processors, and a very slow interface. Having the ethernet link was very slow compared with USB or now USB 3 or Firewire, though perhaps gigabit ethernet would be better. If you are planning to have it to store other files, and possible act as a remote backup as well, then you need to choose a model which would hopefully be more reliable than the one I started with. If you are planning to have the NAS as only a music server that might be a good idea - but you'd need to get one with a good server interface. I think things have improved a lot since then, so it's not really fair to compare a new system with one from five or more years ago, but I just thought I'd let you know of the problems I had. One was to use them as a server to feed directly to a DAC, while other ways would effectively upload to the computer, and then play using a player on that. There were several modes of using the Linkstations. Caching proxy server for Debian/Ubuntu/Devuan software repositories. I was given a replacement which I hardly tried. anacrolix-dms (1.1.0-1): Go UPnP DLNA Digital Media Server with basic video. Backup was supposed to be seamless across the network. One was terribly slow, and the second was faster I think, but crashed when I tried to use one to backup the other, and also caused a crash on the one which was working. I fear ubuntu may well be a step too far for me.I wasn't sure if you already had the NAS. I really will have to try to have a listen to that setup.Īnd johnb, thanks to you, too. Were I to have the USB DAC route, I'd go for Mac with Audirvana, highly praised by several users I know. ![]() I'll have to investigate that - but thanks for the tip.
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