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In Reply to: RE: Questions for soundchekk and John Swenson posted by soundchekk on July 03, 2009 at 07:06:46
Hi soundchekk,
Thanks for the information. I have some further questions for you.
My music library is hung off of a XP box via windows shares, so I mount it via CIFS. Is there any benefit to mounting NFS instead of CIFS?
I think all of my network devices are operating at the same speed, but why do you recommend doing so?
I don't run a real-time kernel on the Fit-PC Slim because of the length of time it would take to compile the kernel. It only has a half gig of RAM and not much of a CPU. The main advantage of the Fit-PC is the clean USB ports and the ability to run off a battery. Will a real time kernel run on a low powered device like the Fit-PC?
I do run a real time kernel on one of my old CCRMA boxes, but maybe its time to update that to a more modern distribution like Ubuntu Studio. Then I can play with the kernel tweaks and RAM disks. I've been playing with Linux since its alpha and beta kernel days (the pre-Slackware SLS distribution finally made installation simple), so compiling a kernel isn't a problem.
I have been playing with MPD and Minion over the past day. It is working fine and switches sample rates on the fly when using alsa via plughw. You wrote: "When using different sample rates and ecasound as output-plugin for MPD I switch outputs within MPD. My own player recognizes the formats and configures ecasound automatically." This is intriguing. Are you doing this via the Minion plugin? Can you explain more about how you you have things configured to switch sample rates automatically?
Thanks,
Alan
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