Reply to: Network music drive?

[vetran]

Dlink Sharecenter 320 (or higher)

Will support DNLA, SMB Squeezebox & others.

takes 2 drives as raid + external.

~£50.

Can do TVheadend, rsync, torrents and many more.


DNS-320L ShareCenterâ„¢ 2-Bay Cloud Network Storage Enclosure | D-Link UK

I have 2 and they have never faltered. my netgear stora & buffalos I'm sorry to say are flaky.

I stream Amazon as well but I like my >18,000 tracks when I fancy loud & proud rock, Amazon doesn't have the same taste.

[d000hg]

Odd, I have had no issues with streaming Amazon Prime music, whether at home on a crappy DSL, random WiFi here and there or 3G/4G. If the mobile signal goes too weak the playback just stops and tries to buffer, no constant stutter or crackle or w/e. that's on PC, Mac, Sonos, iPhone

The stutter is only a very slight one, every now and then... just enough to be noticeable.

Playback stopping and buffering if there's an issue is annoying but fine... but in my case it never seems to fix itself. It will sit buffering forever until I sort it. When listening to music in the bath that's a PITA if you don't want to get a wet phone

So NAS... he's one of the artists I can listen to? Hiphop yes?

[RonBW]

+1 unless you want to go fully online with apple music or Spotify you need a NAS of some form. Personally I would go for a HP microserver and create your own but I understand a desire to buy one install it and run that for ever more.

This.

My music is mostly in Dropbox which is then syncronised with a folder on my NAS. Sonos then accesses that shared folder as well to build the library.

[sal]

Odd, I have had no issues with streaming Amazon Prime music, whether at home on a crappy DSL, random WiFi here and there or 3G/4G. If the mobile signal goes too weak the playback just stops and tries to buffer, no constant stutter or crackle or w/e. that's on PC, Mac, Sonos, iPhone

[d000hg]

BT. But I still blame the software... streaming should be fundamentally designed to come with crappy network conditions since so many people use it on their phones. I imagine it is something like you describe... every now and then a page load stalls but is 99% of the time lightning quick?

[LondonManc]

While I've got Amazon Prime for streaming music I don't like that aspect of it too much - I like to be able to "thumb through" my album collection until I see something I like. Having the entire world of music at my fingertips, I might be stuck what to pick Amazon lets you add Prime (free) stuff to your collection, no idea about Spotify?

Also, Amazon streaming music is flaky for me which makes me dubious. On both iOS and Android devices it gets the odd stutter and sometimes playback will just hang until I skip to the next track. Which is crazy with Fibre... bad developers I reckon.

Never had a problem with Spotify, both at home and out and about.

[eek]

While I've got Amazon Prime for streaming music I don't like that aspect of it too much - I like to be able to "thumb through" my album collection until I see something I like. Having the entire world of music at my fingertips, I might be stuck what to pick Amazon lets you add Prime (free) stuff to your collection, no idea about Spotify?

Also, Amazon streaming music is flaky for me which makes me dubious. On both iOS and Android devices it gets the odd stutter and sometimes playback will just hang until I skip to the next track. Which is crazy with Fibre... bad developers I reckon.

If you are in Virgin fibre I'm finding it far more flaky than it used to be with very short term (seconds) routing issues that would cause that sort of problem.

[d000hg]

While I've got Amazon Prime for streaming music I don't like that aspect of it too much - I like to be able to "thumb through" my album collection until I see something I like. Having the entire world of music at my fingertips, I might be stuck what to pick Amazon lets you add Prime (free) stuff to your collection, no idea about Spotify?

Also, Amazon streaming music is flaky for me which makes me dubious. On both iOS and Android devices it gets the odd stutter and sometimes playback will just hang until I skip to the next track. Which is crazy with Fibre... bad developers I reckon.

[LondonManc]

Get a cheapo NAS if you CBA with additional config/software. If you want future proofing and unlimited features, get an HP Gen8 Microserver for like £100 and stick as much HDDs in it as you like (up to 5) then put FreeNAS or something else on it.

Personally nowadays i mostly stream music from Amazon, what i do have offline is stuffed in Plex running on Synology DSM in a VM on top HP Gen8 Microserver running ESXi. The advantages of having it in Plex are that there is client for almost any imaginable device and you can stream it online from your server to yourself and friends and it has all the nice art and eye candy.

I must admit, since I got the family Spotify, the NAS has barely been used apart from for my regular backups (not sure if the rest of the family back up their stuff, but I've shown them how).

[sal]

Get a cheapo NAS if you CBA with additional config/software. If you want future proofing and unlimited features, get an HP Gen8 Microserver for like £100 and stick as much HDDs in it as you like (up to 5) then put FreeNAS or something else on it.

Personally nowadays i mostly stream music from Amazon, what i do have offline is stuffed in Plex running on Synology DSM in a VM on top HP Gen8 Microserver running ESXi. The advantages of having it in Plex are that there is client for almost any imaginable device and you can stream it online from your server to yourself and friends and it has all the nice art and eye candy.

[VectraMan]

I've got a Buffalo Linkstation. Works fine for exactly what you want, allows you to map drives (certainly to Windows and Linux, not got a Mac). I use it in conjunction with a timer plug, so that it powers off to cool down for a few hours overnight.

That's a good idea. The Buffalo NAS I had cooked itself in the first 24 hours. I had to reflash it with an open source BIOS after which it worked pretty well. But ultimately I ended up smashing it apart (it was held together with glue so really did need a hammer and chisel) and removing the disk to put in the desktop.

[Platypus]

Some routers let you plug in a USB drive.

[SimonMac]

I have a WD-DL4100

It has iTunes installed and the SONOS pointed to it

[LondonManc]

+1 unless you want to go fully online with apple music or Spotify you need a NAS of some form. Personally I would go for a HP microserver and create your own but I understand a desire to buy one install it and run that for ever more.

I wanted something the enemy couldn't fudge up. Easier to grant her read only access to the shared folders on a glorified usb drive than to start configuring a server.

[eek]

I've got a Buffalo Linkstation. Works fine for exactly what you want, allows you to map drives (certainly to Windows and Linux, not got a Mac). I use it in conjunction with a timer plug, so that it powers off to cool down for a few hours overnight.

+1 unless you want to go fully online with apple music or Spotify you need a NAS of some form. Personally I would go for a HP microserver and create your own but I understand a desire to buy one install it and run that for ever more.