Touch with 'WD My Book World Edition' - does it work ??

[aubuti]

i don't use raid to protect me from mistakes, nor is anything i'm doing on it so critical that i need such protection.

nor does using the raid preclude me from other backups, which i do in fact have. the difference is i don't update those as frequently, and having a up to moment backup is more important to me. kind of hard to do that and have it offsite at the same time.

Right. Basically RAID protects you from losing data or "uptime" if^H^H when one of the drives in the array dies. Everyone has his/her own ideas about and tolerance of relative risk. I personally prefer backups -- both onsite and offsite -- that are updated daily.

[MrSinatra]

is there any chance that the touch would make the USB drive available as a network drive to other computers on the router?

[aubuti]

is there any chance that the touch would make the USB drive available as a network drive to other computers on the router?

Yes, the SBT also runs Samba for network file sharing. Nice, eh?

[MrSinatra]

indeed. now if it only had more power... run SC with webui, transcode, etc... and if they'd sell a cheaper ver without display, it would be pretty close to what i want.

[funkstar]

indeed. now if it only had more power... run SC with webui, transcode, etc... and if they'd sell a cheaper ver without display, it would be pretty close to what i want.

If the interface and playback portion of the touch was to be disabled, the web interface would be feasible. The main reason for disabling it is to prevent it from over whelming the Touch making audio drop out. After all it is primarily a player.

for transcoding you really want full support, which would include down sampling of high res audio for legacy players. This would need either an ARM compiled version of SoX or a move to different hardware, not just a more powerful processor.

[bpa]

indeed. now if it only had more power... run SC with webui, transcode, etc... and if they'd sell a cheaper ver without display, it would be pretty close to what i want.

I think the sheevaplug would meet these requirements - 1.2GHz ARM @ $99
http://www.plugcomputer.org/

[MrSinatra]

I think the sheevaplug would meet these requirements - 1.2GHz ARM @ $99
http://www.plugcomputer.org/

wow, thats a neat device! now, i'd like a SB client in it too, but as a SC alone piece of hardware, it looks like it would really be good.

i mean, i hope logitech is reading this... make a SC piece of hardware, and make one with optional display and optional client attached.

[dean]

On Oct 4, 2009, at 10:14 AM, MrSinatra wrote:

>
> bpa;465418 Wrote:
>> I think the sheevaplug would meet these requirements - 1.2GHz ARM @
>> $99
>> http://www.plugcomputer.org/
>
> wow, thats a neat device! now, i'd like a SB client in it too, but as
> a SC alone piece of hardware, it looks like it would really be good.

A while back, Andy was able to get SC running on it by copying over
the Touch TinySC binaries and just running them! And it was pretty
darned fast, IIRC.

[snarlydwarf]

On Oct 4, 2009, at 10:14 AM, MrSinatra wrote:

>
> bpa;465418 Wrote:
>> I think the sheevaplug would meet these requirements - 1.2GHz ARM @
>> $99
>> http://www.plugcomputer.org/
>
> wow, thats a neat device! now, i'd like a SB client in it too, but as
> a SC alone piece of hardware, it looks like it would really be good.

A while back, Andy was able to get SC running on it by copying over
the Touch TinySC binaries and just running them! And it was pretty
darned fast, IIRC.

Though an SB Client would be sort of useless since it has no audio out.

[MrSinatra]

the SB client attached to it (ie. one combined unit, the SB hardware + it) would provide the audio out, thats the point.