Digital Music Server advice

[John Rennie]

When I'm travelling I use a Nexus 7 tablet in a stand:

https://play.google.com/store/devices/details/Nexus_7_Dock?id=nexus_7_dock

The stand provides power and audio output - there's a stereo jack on
the stand and the tablet automatically routes audio through the stand
when it's docked.

This seems pretty close to what you're asking for, except that there
isn't room on the Nexus 7 for all the music files so you'd need to read
them across the WiFi from some form of NAS. When I'm travelling I
stream the music across the internet from my home server, though this
is possibly getting a bit nerdy :-)

As for simplicity, XBMC runs fine on the N7 and is simple enough for my
Mum (80) to use. It manages the library, and will play just about every
format of music file. If you want to try other media players then of
course many different players are available for Android tablets.

You quite liked the Brennan, but I can't see that the Brennan has any
advantages over an N7 + stand. Well, the audio circuitry will be
better, but then you said that's not such a big issue and the N7 audio
circuitry is pretty good.

JR

-----Original Message-----
From: BOC/Hawkwind Discussion List [mailto:BOC-L at LISTSERV.ISPNETINC.NET] On Behalf Of Keith Henderson
Sent: 05 July 2013 20:14
To: BOC-L at LISTSERV.ISPNETINC.NET
Subject: Re: Digital Music Server advice

John....
Thanks for trying, but unless I'm mistaken somehow, none of these ideas helps me.

>If you like using an iPod

I have one, and "like" it, but here I'm just using 'iPod' as any random handheld digital music (only) device, though of course I don't want another one or a tablet version (or Touch)...I want a compact stereo component console with nice forward-facing (!!!) display.

Mac Mini (from the image on Wikipedia) has no display at all.  Right?  No good.  The other cheap thing is a game console and a featureless box.  Again, not at all what I want.

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