pointers needed - new home built music server system

[randytsuch]

I think most people using two PCs have a "control PC" and a "audio PC", running Jplay.

Jplay supports a dual PC mode that is supposed to sound better than running everything in one PC.

HQPlayer has a similar setup available, replace the term "audio PC" with "NAA", where the NAA can be a low powered appliance

[randytsuch]

I note that the QNAP NAS has two ethernet ports so could support bridging

It seems to make sense that the NAS has a dedicate Ethernet port to serve the files to the MServer? Right or wrong?

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Makes sense to me, but I don't use a NAS so have no experience here.

 

Should I be looking at JPlay etc?

 

That's up to you.

http://jplay.eu/download/

You can evaluate it for free. I think eval the version does not include all features, and it will go silent every few minutes.

If I was you, I would give it a spin after you get you new music server running, and see if you like it.

If you do, you could consider a dual PC setup.

 

There's an active jplay forum where you can get jpaly specific help if you need it.

 

Randy