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Squeezebox Touch

With the Enhanced Digital Output applet the Touch can definitely output 192 S/PDIF coax or optical.

When using a squeezebox there are a few things you need to take into account, the SB gets the audio data from LMS, "Logitech Media Server", this has to be running on something, the Touch cannot directly read the NAS box. Some NAS boxes are powerful enough to run LMS, but many are not. If you don't run LMS on the NAS you will need to run it on another computer, anywhere from a $100 sheevaplug on up. The server can run on windows, OSX or linux so it can run on almost anything you can find to run it on. The server running on a different computer CAN read your NAS box and send the data to the Touch over the network. If you are going to be running hi res files it's highly recommendeed to run all this with wired ethernet. The controller (iPad, iPhone, android phone or tablet, web interface from a computer or several dedicated programs) can use wifi to get to the network.

Currently there is a limitation that if you want to play 192 files you have to send them as flac data over the network. The server can transcode anything you have into flac for sending over the wire so you don't actually need flac FILES, BUT that transcoding takes some horsepower on the server computer, so if your hi res files are not flac a wimpy little computer will probably not be good enough. An Atom based computer shoulf be fine, but anything less than that may not be good enough. If your hi res files are already flac then they don't need to be transcoded so a somewhat lesser computer may work fine. Remember this restriction ONLY applies to 192/176 files, anything less does not have this issue.

John S.


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