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.
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Originally posted by sal View PostOdd, 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
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?
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Originally posted by eek View Post+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.
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.
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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
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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?
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Originally posted by d000hg View PostWhile 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.
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Originally posted by d000hg View PostWhile 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.
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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.
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Originally posted by sal View PostGet 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.
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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.
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Originally posted by LondonManc View PostI'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.
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I have a WD-DL4100
It has iTunes installed and the SONOS pointed to it
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Originally posted by eek View Post+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.
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Originally posted by LondonManc View PostI'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.
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