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Old November 26th 10, 12:05 PM posted to uk.rec.audio
David[_5_]
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I'm back on the music storage/player thing and keep going round and round in
circles.

Basically, what I want is a NAS with built in web based music player and
digital stereo out. Does such a thing exist?
I know you can get media players but I don't need or want any video playing
options and I don't want dolby 5.1 digital out, I want stereo digital out to
feed my DAC.
I've looked at the squeeze box options, the PC options and pretty much every
other option but they all do more than I'm asking.
Then there's the Linn/Naim options that cost thousands which I can't afford.
The closest thing is a media centre like the ones from Sumvision, but they
are all video based, get very bad reviews and very little info on the
digital out signal they produce.

Can anyone help?
I would like to do this for as little money as possible (obviously) and
would like about 1TB of storage.

Thank you

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Old November 26th 10, 01:48 PM posted to uk.rec.audio
Jim Lesurf[_2_]
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Default NAS with spdif out?

In article , David
wrote:
I'm back on the music storage/player thing and keep going round and
round in circles.


Basically, what I want is a NAS with built in web based music player and
digital stereo out. Does such a thing exist?


Apologies if you've previous explained this and I've missed (or forgotten)
that, but:

Why not use the NAS to hold the files and just use a suitable computer or
other device to play them?

I know you can get media players but I don't need or want any video
playing options and I don't want dolby 5.1 digital out, I want stereo
digital out to feed my DAC. I've looked at the squeeze box options, the
PC options and pretty much every other option but they all do more than
I'm asking. Then there's the Linn/Naim options that cost thousands which
I can't afford. The closest thing is a media centre like the ones from
Sumvision, but they are all video based, get very bad reviews and very
little info on the digital out signal they produce.


FWIW I'm currently just using outboard dacs with computers to play the
files. But I'm interested in the Squeezebox Touch as it should play from
either a server or from a directly attached memory/device. Does that do
more than you require?

Afraid I can't immediately suggest a solution to your question, but I'm not
sure I've fully understood your actual requirement or why the methods I've
used would not suit you.

Slainte,

Jim

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