Announcing MinimServer 2

[Martin H]

Simon - due to real world distractions I have been a stranger to the site of late and had missed this altogether. I understand the rationale pf the 'news' which I hope will work well for you. I and am sure 'we' all appreciate what you have provided for so long based on donations alone. I would like to clarify a couple things.

1 - In practice I use 1 copy of Minimserver actively to serve music from my Melco but as I have added QNAP servers to the house I have installed the minimserver software onto each server for consistency of build really - a habit more than anything - and so it's on a further 4 devices (total of 5). Three of them are always 'stopped' and one is running just in case the Melco was to fail. Again this is just a habit really and I can obviously cope with 3 device license if and when it becomes relevant. But can I check is it 3 devices active (not stopped) or 3 devices installed. As I understand it - this isn't available on the QNAPs yet anyway and so this is perhaps a question for the future really. From what I have read the QNAP versions will continue to work at least until Minimserver 2 is made available - and supported?

2 - Maybe more current is the Melco I have is the original N1A. I can't see that in the minimserver 2 device list and I also just checked that its software version is the latest for that product but at 3.91. so...
i) - is this on your roadmap as a target device for the new software
ii) and if not, will the original version continue to be supported for those devices or is this just a matter of hoping it continues to work.

note - I will go and hunt around the Melco site but perhaps they have binned the N1a as a product which would be disappointing but obviously a different issue. (edit - they have discontinued it)

note - I have read through the thread but couldn't see the answers to these - apologies if I missed them.