[clue-tech] Low-memory laptop for a jukebox

[Matt Gushee]

Jeff Schroeder wrote:

>> I think you will have issues with network latency if you try to play
>> the tunes directly from the network drive. I don't have much
>> experience with network file systems, but offhand I think you'll
>> probably want to do something like copy the song to a temp directory
>> on the jukebox before playing it.
> 
> Nah, any reasonable 100Mb network can stream high-quality audio without 
> breaking a sweat.  I've got a central data server with my entire music 
> collection, and mount it via NFS to several Linux machines throughout 
> the house.  I can listen to music in my office while my wife listens to 
> (other) music in hers, and the kids are upstairs listening to still 
> other tunes.  I don't even have hiccups in the streams.

Okay, I guess I was mistaken. In my limited experience with NFS, I've 
seen serious delays in operations like copying small text files--but 
that was a few years ago, and the systems involved could well have been 
badly configured. I'm really not a networking guy.

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