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In Reply to: RE: A little help please, so I can properly follow this s%&t-show... posted by Ivan303 on July 23, 2015 at 16:54:30
As i understand it...Music Servers are more all in one units. They're more likely to have a more typical multi-purpose mainboard, a hard drive, video card, as well as the playback software & (often) a display. Some of them have amps and DACs built in as well, - like the Sonos or Olive.
As opposed to network file players, which typically do not have hard drives, - (one can turn the Bryston & the Aurender N100 into servers by installing HDs, but they don't start out that way), - but have playback software that loads files from an external hard drive, a NAS drive via ethernet, or streams over the Internet.
The SBT, Sonore, Bel Canto, Sim Audio Mind, & Aurilic Aries are network file players.
One can also install LMS, (and of course other software), on a NAS drive connected, - (most typically), - via ethernet, - and that is sometimes also called a server: {but I would hazard that folks just refer to it as a NAS drive, cause more and more people are using NAS for multiple media}.
I don't see much of an issue with the above, and believe that is how those terms are widely used. A "server" stores the files, the player plays them.
I have always been critical of music servers & all-in-one devices, not only for the price, inflexibility in sharing out the files, but for the maintenance reasons that Abe cited in his OP.
I was confused at one point, (maybe by other posts than Abe's main one above), where I thought that the word "appliance" was used to mean a network file player and not a "server."
"Asylums with doors open wide,
Where people had paid to see inside,
For entertainment they watch his body twist
Behind his eyes he says, 'I still exist.'"
Edits: 07/23/15 07/23/15 07/23/15Follow Ups:
In other words...
As I have a SONOS and a Marantz NA-7004.
Neither of which I'd call more than mid-fi sources.
NA-7004 supports AirPlay, so there's that.
SONOS streams QOBUZ if you tell it you live in Europe.
In addition to the units being all-in-one, (again as it's termed Music Server), the internal HD is a requirement.
In IT Infrastructure I've heard the term "network appliance" used in reference to a NAS drive.
If Abe would've said Server instead of appliance in the title of his post, - I wouldn't have confused it with network file player like the Aries.
I can understand why some high end manufacturers would want to provide an easy all-in-one box that the customer can even ship their CDs to and have the manufacturer load them up for them and ship them back their 1 box solution. A solution like that has never been right for me. People who load all of their music onto their commercial computer's internal HD have built themselves a music server.
"Asylums with doors open wide,
Where people had paid to see inside,
For entertainment they watch his body twist
Behind his eyes he says, 'I still exist.'"
and I don't, I'd likely prefer a stand-alone NAS drive, preferably with some form of RAID configuration that would assure everything is safe and even then, perhaps some off line backup system that only backs up the NAS whenever new stuff is loaded?
A one box solution makes no sense for me as most of my listening today is not even in the main system but streaming Lossless FLAC over the internet to headphones in my easy chair or in the office.
That and spinning vinyl.
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