Mike Barnes wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@g52lk5g23lkgk3lk345g.invalid:
I was (perhaps inaccurately!) aiming my reply to Endulini in an attempt to dissuade him from pusuing a Winamp based approach.
Facilities? Well, off the top of my head, how about control from *any* browser interface, eg including a remote location or a smartphone. Or playing different music in multiple rooms. Or syncronising multiple players to the same music. Or a sexy app to run on on an iPhone or iPod Touch. Or a wireless Controller with LCD screen for browsing, displaying album art etc. Also, the better Squeezebox players include high quality Burr Brown DACs.
Or, given that it runs against MySQL, third party applications to run against the database. I use these two quite often - ACC for generating a catalogue of my collection:
Moose for generating playlists (and an alternative browser interface for Squeezeserver):
Certainly, JRMC is a well-respected product within the Squeezebox community.
Understood - but as I said, I was (perhaps inaccurately!) aiming my reply to Endulini.
Not necessarily. Scans can be either for changes, or a full scan. Either type of scan can be scheduled or initiated immediately. Or simply playing newly added music is sufficient.
I have a 'look for changes' scan scheduled overnight on the server. Full scans are only needed whenever changes are made external to the database, for example to the directory structure, filenames, or by deleting data. In the course of building an extensive music library this will inevitably occur from time to time. In my experience on an underpowered (for this purpose) NAS a full scan of a large collection took 7 hours, but on a reasonable (but by no means top end) PC takes 20 min or so.
Understood.
An Atom powered netbook should be fine.
In my case, I wanted both additional CPU power + disk space, and went for both in the same box. If you have a NAS, use it for storage (which it is designed for) and don't compromise by trying to run Squeezecenter on it. It can be done for many NAS appliances, but few run satisfactorily.
Kind regards