9 Oct
2011
9 Oct
'11
3:15 p.m.
Hi Frederico,
On 10/09/2011 11:38 AM, Federico Bruni wrote:
Hi all,
it's the first time I write in this mailing list and I hope I'm not OT.
I'm looking for a hifi stereo system with USB support. I mean: I want to
be able to plug an external USB hard disk, browse the folders and choose
the files I want to listen to.
I've found some products (by Cambridge Audio) that support all the
formats I use, i.e. Ogg and Flac.
But it seems that the only supported filesystem is FAT32.
I wonder if you know some product which support some more advanced
filesystem. Hopefully ext2/3/4, but even NTFS would be maybe better than
FAT32.
FAT32 is slow and doesn't support some characters in the file name. I
know I'll have some problems copying my huge collection of files in a
FAT32 filesystem.
Any hint is appreciated.
Thanks!
Federico
I suppose you're looking for an off-the-shelf product, however what you
wish to accomplish is easily done by just taking an old laptop (or
similar) with a good audio-interface and simply install GNU/Linux.
There's quite a few OOTB "media-center" distributions:
http://www.mythbuntu.org/
http://www.geexbox.org/
...
Doings so should not take longer than finding a product that does what
you want :-)
An other approach is to simply get away with FAT32 and use tags to store
the information [instead of/in addition to] the file-name..
If your music is properly sorted in folder/filename, you can script
tagging or use easytag for mass-reassignments of your collection.
2c,
robin