![]() ![]() How do I go about setting up my NAS and configuring the audio settings on my laptop and desktop PC so that the Marantzs can properly decode the music at the right bitrate since I did purchase some, 88khz/24 bit, 176.4khz/24 bit, and 192khz/24 bit music downloads last week? I didn't see a setting that allowed me to select all the bitrates my receiver was capable of decoding in my PC or in Foobar, but to be honest I'm not really sure what I'm looking for.Ģ. I currently only have one new hard drive for the NAS (I could only afford one after the cost of the NAS), but I do plan to add another hard drive within 6 months.ġ. Last week I converted all my CDs to uncompressed FLAC via dBpoweramp and have ordered a NAS (Synology ds213j) which will be here on Wednesday. ![]() Since the Marantz can't decode FLAC directly, my plan is to use Foobar on my Windows 7 PCs to play the FLAC files and send the audio to the Marantzs via HDMI. Obviously, the more functionality of the client that is built into a server version the more demands it will place on server hardware.Recently, I decided I wanted to be able to send (stream?) my music collection to each of my Marantz SR 6005s. Streaming video should be fine, but playing video is another matter. However, all Synology NAS's can certainly be used as players, at least if you plug an external USB DAC in. On my Core i7 dual-core mobile processor running Windows 7 and MC, playing 4 different audio tracks with processing at the same time pushes CPU to about 5%. This may stress a NAS, but I guess it depends on individual NAS processors and what sort of processing you want to do and how many streams you want to process at the same time. If there's a renderer built-in then that implies audio processing. ![]() Like, is it going to be a just a database/library server where clients will connect to it in order to get data, but the actual playing and audio processing will be done by the clients? In which case, this is what a NAS should excel at and I think this is probably what people are asking for. I think so much is up in the air at the moment, but it depends how much functionality would be built into an eventual server/embedded version. PS: For people looking at DLNA DMRs, Rasberry Pi, etc for extra locations around the house, I built this client with all new hardware for < $200US shipped to my door. I'll have to post my JMark score in that thread later, but if I remember correctly, it is ~950. Albums/Playlists, and even changing after a complete track, is not an issue. If I get too aggressive with flipping around tracks though (say switching tracks after listening for just a few seconds a couple times in a row), I will get ~10-seconds of stutter until it catches up. Navigating with Gizmo works much better, especially when playing all-day DJ and changing tracks on the fly. Navigating can be a bit sluggish sometimes as well, particularly with the remote. If I want to listen to them, I have to push them from the server with conversion. The only issue is that I can not down-sample SACD ISO (severe stuttering completely unplayable). Music is fine over-sampled to 24/192 w/ ~50% CPU usage while displaying Milkdrop. I watch video w/ ROSQ without issue using the integrated graphics. It has 4GB of RAM and a 32GB SSD running Win7 32-bit. ![]() Just to get an idea of minimum specs, I also run a full version of MC on an Atom D2700 (2.13GHz, Dual Core, 1M Cache) client. ![]()
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