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In the Forum: Didital Things
In the Thread: The commercial music servers.
Post Subject: Ergonomically and functionally done very stupidly.Posted by Romy the Cat on: 1/11/2008

 jessie.dazzle wrote:
Control everything from anywhere in the house : The newest version of the Mac OS (sorry!) gives you complete wireless remote control over a second Mac, allowing you to see the screen of the other computer, and execute ALL functions remotely. This means you can browse your music library, see what's playing, change the music, add notes, etc, all from the couch (it does this via the wireless VPN, or Virtual Private Network). As far as the user knows, the computer that is running the DAC and the hard drives is sitting right there in his lap, not on the hifi rack.

Jessie,

what you describe is exactly what I have as well and I also do like this approach. I have a dedicated PC that sits next to my AD/DA, connected to my home wireless network. If I wish I run Remote Desktop from my laptop to Music Server and mange the playback software from laptop. I would not play the file off my laptop.

I still feel that there is a place for dedicated "music servers"… if they are done properly. A "music server" should read CD and 88kHz files of a disk. What would people do if then have a DAC with one digital input? We do we need to have CD transport and "music servers" as a separate box if they do essentially the same functionality.

Anyhow, I feel a "music server" need to be a highly optimized PC running very small amount of the very dedicated tasks. Consider it as a 44-88Khz transport with a network card, large storage capacity, remote access, high quality of I/O, high quality files player, clock synchronization, large display and good ergonomics. Companies try to do this task nowadays but they charge $20K -$40K for those machines – it should not be so much and it should be much-much less expensive, not to mention that all "music servers" that I have see were ergonomically done very poorly, not to say very stupidly.

The caT

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