[dba-Tech] netbook as a home music server: followup

Sounds like a great setup, and Iike the idea of moving the CD cabinet into
storage.

A.

On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 2:05 PM, Peter Brawley
<peter.brawley at earthlink.net>wrote:

> We bought a SqueezeBox Touch for $230. Installation is dead simple: plug it
> in, attach a cat5 wire (it does wifi but why cut speed & reliability in
> half?), plug its optical output into the receiver's aux optical in plug (the
> 2m cable is $25), download the server software (OS, written in Perl) from
> mysqleezebox.com, install it on a box that's on all the time, tell it
> where the music folders are, and bingo, we have point&click access to all
> our networked music plus hundreds of classical fm stations round the world
> (including Radio Beijing, which on the first evening's evidence likes to
> play Bach & Mozart piano pieces).
>
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