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"If you are not going to go with a NAS the streamer makes little sense."

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In Reply to: RE: I wouldn't call it off-topic: as it's either difficult or not possible posted by Bob_C on June 17, 2015 at 12:39:52

Why do you say that?

A streamer is just a device that allows you to play music that is stored elsewhere. The music could be stored on a NAS, or on an ordinary computer like Abe says, or cloud storage, or an internet radio station, or service like Tidal.

If you only ever listen to music on your main system, and are happy with your computer audio setup, then a streamer doesn't make sense for you. But if you are like most people and listen to music on multiple systems/devices, you might consider streamers as way to make your music collection available in multiple places without have to maintain multiple copies of your music library.

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RE: "If you are not going to go with a NAS the streamer makes little sense." - AbeCollins 14:55:48 06/17/15 (1)
A streamer is just a device that allows you to play music that is stored elsewhere. The music could be stored on a NAS, or on an ordinary computer like Abe says, or cloud storage, or an internet radio station, or service like Tidal.
By some definitions a streamer includes a music server with local content. You'll see the term streamer used in both cases but as the industry evolves we are starting to see a shift more toward your definition.
If you only ever listen to music on your main system, and are happy with your computer audio setup, then a streamer doesn't make sense for you. But if you are like most people and listen to music on multiple systems/devices, you might consider streamers as way to make your music collection available in multiple places without have to maintain multiple copies of your music library.
I have one copy of my library on my local disk in my main system (Mac Mini & DAC) and can also stream content from that single library to multiple other devices throughout our home w/o the need for more than that single library.
Apparently Aurender sees a market for streamers with local storage. Otherwise they would not be making the X100 series with upwards of 12TB internal HDD.

Edits: 06/17/15
- RE: "If you are not going to go with a NAS the streamer makes little sense." - Bob_C 15:19:39 06/17/15 (0)
  You are correct it is designed to use internal drives so no reason not to. Looking at it they are probably using a Bay Trail CPU so they have the power to easily incorporate drives.
RE: "If you are not going to go with a NAS the streamer makes little sense." - Bob_C 14:40:21 06/17/15 (0)
I agree Dave. But Abe was saying he wanted to put a drive in it. Makes little sense IMO if that is all he wants it for.

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