Total Newbie - Apologies in Advance

[simoncn]

(05-05-2014 18:07)gnomus Wrote:  Simon

Thanks for recommending that switch. The Linn is now playing quite happily with no stuttering.

I'm pleased to hear this.

Quote:And that brings up the latest problem. Since going "wireless" on my "ripping" computer, this process has become even more tedious than before. The speed of "rip" is, of course, unaffected. However, the "CPU-Encoding" stage has become very slow, presumably because of the amount of data that I am now having to send via wireless. Indeed, if I am ripping and re-tagging at the same time, the system will occasionally give up the ghost.

It looks like I am going to have to set up a temporary ripping station close to the Linn/NAS that I can hard-wire into when I have a ripping session (nearly every day at present).

I know that you already knew that that would happen, but I thought I'd post up here for others who may, like me, be at the beginning of this process.

From this, I presume you are ripping direct to the NAS across a slow homeplugs connection. It would probably be better to rip to your local PC and then copy the files to the NAS. This is what I do.

Quote:For those thinking of setting up a NAS in the listening room, the Synology is quiet. I cannot hear it in action, perhaps the flickering lights from the NAS and switch are a little off-putting. I will probably get a small cupboard to house the NAS and switch.

That's interesting. My Synology DS713+ is noisy enough to be quite distracting, so I only use it for testing. For regular listening, I use a fanless QNAP TS-119.