Best way to set up a Touch

[Rob100]

Hi everyone

On a bit of a whim I have just ordered a new Touch for a bargain price of £129.99

Problem is all of my music is on CD and I'm a bit lost on what additional equipment I now need, i.e NAS or external hard drive, and how to set it up? I also didn't really plan on buying this now and don't have a lot more spare cash!

My limited know how has given me three options and I'd be interested in hearing the thoughts of someone who knows what they are talking about and a few possible ideas on what I should buy, or is there a better way! I'm sure this has been covered before on the forum but I have no clue where to start.

Option 1 - Buy a NAS and locate it upstairs in the spare bedroom, connect wirelessly to my network and then either connect the Touch by ethernet to my wireless router or can it pick up the wireless signal direct from the NAS?

Option 2 - Connect a NAS direct to my router in the front room - but the NAS must be silent if I do this. (not sure if my router has any inputs apart from the input from the virgin cable modem?)

Option 3 - connect an external hard drive (prob 1TB) direct to the Touch. I'm sure this will be the cheapest, but I've got a big task saving all my CDs in front of me and I don't fancy connecting having to keep messing around with the connections while I do this.

Many thanks

Rob

[Rob100]

http://www.logitech.com/en-gb/promot...s/devices/7348

Link to the £129.99 touch - as the post above was my first it wouldn't let me include this!

[Mnyb]

4. run the server software on any other computer you may have ( it installs in Linux Mac OS or windows ) this computer does not need to be vary fast, just fit a bigger drive to it, it may be a computer you are planing to recycle. Wired is preferred over wifi .

5. A small dye server in a shuttle chassi or a fan less smaller chassi mini it's ? Atom ? Can be cheaper than the NAS option .

6. Vortex box a key turn Squeezeboxserver it's preinstalled and ready to rock it can also rip CD's cost less tah a NAS with similar CPU performance .

Don't skimp on CPU in the NAS .

They migth be surprisingly noisy , cat5 cabling to a location far from the music is good .

Rip lossless with EAC or dBpoweramp to FLAC do regular backups, you be spending 100's of hours doing this

[wonder boy]

you be spending 100's of hours doing this

But enjoying every minute!!