I agree that the user interface and the ease with which you can select what you want to play is extremely important and is something that is regularly overlooked.
#Songkong server down software#
Regrettably it’s software is proprietary, which means that if I want to expand my HD I need to buy Melco HDs and daisy chain them.Am I right in thinking that these Melco HDs cost £1000 for a 3TB HDD? The Bryston sounds far better, has been more reliable, but the Manic Moose program is terrible.
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The main reason for this is the Music File management software. I just made the decision to swap my Bryston BDP3 streamer for a Melco Server/Streamer. Otoh, maybe I can use the NAS for other purposes, such as digizing our personal papers, which would also cut down on the amount of tonnage that we would have to move when the time comes.Īnyway, I thought that posting this here might give prospective Music Server purchasers food for thought My current NAS will therefore not benefit from this, but there are versions of MinimServer and SongKong for Synology NAS, although only for Linux based and mine is not. Regrettably it’s software is proprietary, which means that if I want to expand my HD I need to buy Melco HDs and daisy chain them. The Melco comes with a 3TB HD and that should be adequate for a while. I can in most cases go to my shelves and find the relevant CD before I can locate it in Bipolar Bison. My first streamer is Bluesound, which is reasonably priced, will stream high resolution recordings, but I had some reliability issues. I still enjoy playing CDs, and the only reason that I wish to move them to a HD is that in a few years I anticipate we will be moving to smaller digs and I don’t want to clog the new place with my collection (I will still have SACDS and Blu Rays to store).
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He seems like a stand up guy with great reviews from the site, and he is giving me a fair credit value for the Bryston, but still I always wish that I had a real person in front of me. Melco dealers are thin on the ground here and I am dealing with a vendor in Connecticut. Melco is touting their current management system (a combination of Minim Server and SongKong) as being geared to CM, and after watching a few You Tube Videos it does look a lot more promising. As will be familiar to most of us who have tried to burn any CDs to any HD, the music management systems are geared to pop, and while one can edit the files, it is a time consuming and often frustrating process, and with a large CD collection it just isn’t feasible.