Playback UPnP for OS X

> Any recommendations on a NAS? Synology, QNAP or "other?"

Vortexbox - you know it makes sense 

You name it, it serves it - it can rip as well, but if you don't need that bit then don't get it (just use XLD on your Mac to rip to a Vortexbox share (it likes FLAC, just like Naim) - the build is up to you, the software is rock solid - you can DIY, buy a ready made one or get a custom one. It is optimised to serve or play music. The software is excellent value in my opinion - it's free. 

You can try it out on virtually any old PC to see if you like it and then if you do go for one of the many options. 

As always there are lots of options - I was keen to avoid Windoze, but you may not share prejudices in this area. 

RipNAS looks linteresting! I was going to output the UServe right to the nDAC, but from reading the literature can't figure out what the outputs are from the RipNAS

No arguments there - new VB TogServe now online - after much swearing over the Cat6 cable hidden away under the huge Victorian skirting boards.  A i3 based server with a fast single 2TB drive for now and loads of memory. 

Now to transfer the library back from the backup storage and away we go.

Fantastic - command line control from terminal - everyday control via web GUI and N-Stream 

Tog

yay!  b/c we know how to do that.  what year is it?

There's nothing like a good bash session to keep you chops up. 

You do realise that us youngsters don’t know what you chaps are on about,

As a child of the sixties - I still feel like a youngster :-))

"We are stardust, we are golden, we are caught in the devil's bargain,
And we got to get ourselves back to the garden."

Tog

<we will now proceed to untangle the entire area>..."almost cut my hair...was gettin' kinda long..."

... but I didn't and I wonder why ... 

those were the days my friend, we thought they'd never end

anyway here is a video starring my next door neighbour

Oh dear, sadly I was hard at work by then; still, at least we can continue to enjoy dear old CS&N's sentiments.

It maybe later than you/we think.

Peter

Not to quibble, but those were Joni Mitchell's sentiments, the CSN version was (an inferior) cover..

Quibble away ath.

When you are right you are right. I said it maybe later than we think. Tell me it was Woodstock though; or have I really lost the plot.

Peter

Hi Peter

Yes indeed it was - what always amuses me is that the American Woodstock was in 1969 - a year later than English group Turquoise wrote the song Woodstock in 1968, it was about a psych gathering in Woodstock in Oxfordshire, but I don't think the dude who did the You Tube clip realised that. Turquoise's best known song Tales Flossie Fillet - both tracks can be found on the superb compilation The Further Adventures Of Flossie Fillet

All the best, Guy

Joni was told by management to skip woodstock and do the Dick Cavett show.  She was at such a loss for  doing that, she saw the images on TV and wrote the song.  Of course pals and lovers, CSN made it into a huge hit radio wise.  You rarely heard hers but I love it on vinyl.  much more hating and deeply spiritual.

Mr Tog, kind Sir

Mathews Southern Comfort made some great records and the pedal steel guitar on their version of Woodstock was outstanding - even Joni acknowledged theirs as the best version of the song. A completely different song, of course, from the Turquoise gem of nearly two years earlier. 

Ian Mathews who was a founder member of the Fairport Convention went on to form Plainsong - who recorded one of the very best records in the history of very best records: In Search of Amelia Earheart.  

It is quite amazing to think just how good Fairport were - Richard Thompson - super guitarist and more than decent song writer, Ian Mathews as mentioned above and the greatest singer/songwriter of them all - Sandy Denny. Not to mention Dave Mattacks, Dave Swarbrick, Dave Pegg and Uncle Tom Cobbley and all and ... (sorry, got a bit carried away there). All these dudes were in the same band - 1969: they release three classic albums. 

OK - so I'm more than a little biased, but for me it doesn't get better than Fairport Convention - who vie with the Beatles, Kinks, Shirley & Dolly Collins, Half Man Half Biscuit and Chas & Dave & Albert as my favourite band of all. 

Hey it is fun to post about music rather than whether it is better to use C Shell, Korn Shell or Bourne Again Shell to play the music - sometimes you gotta say Simon & Garfunkel had it over Kernighan & Ritchie. 

All the best, Guy 

Indeed, it was Woodstock.  As I tell my kids, I was there, "making rock history."  Joni's take on the event, while extremely poetic, was not quite my experience, but certainly a splendid time was had by all.

Hi folks, a good reason for not posting while watching a film I think.

Now my brain is back in-gear, didn’t Joni write Woodstock from the accounts of the festival as relayed to her by Graham Nash; the pair being an item at the time?

As you may have figured, we only have the CS&N version; something I rectified in the night (following ath’s post) by ordering a copy of Joni M’s “Ladies of the Canyon” album. Don’t think I have heard the Matthews Southern Comfort version, but Guy, you make it sound very appealing, I will see if I can find that now.

Several other interesting people mentioned, good to be reminded of them; time to look for some new music purchases I think.

Thanks to you all, what can I say? Well only that they aren’t Mozart are they!

Regards

Peter