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Embedded Linux In Onkyo's Home Music Server

Posted by timothy on from the heavy-duty dept.

IrateSurf writes "ExtremeTech has a story about a new use of embedded Linux from Onkyo, which runs a home music server. Their NAS-2.3 has a CD-player as well as an 80GB hard drive for storing music and streaming it to other players on the an Ethernet network. Also check out the web site for the NAS-2.3." If only they would make it record radio, too ...

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  1. they must be rich by Stanley+Feinbaum · · Score: 4, Interesting

    They must be rich if they can afford to have 80gigs worth of legal copies of their music...

    if each album takes 80megs about.. then the hd can hold 1000 albums... 1000 albums at 20$ an album is 20,000$ !

    Who can afford to spend that much on music?

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    Stanley Feinbaum, professional journalist and master debater! God bless the USA!

  2. Why not wireless? by Metalhead01 · · Score: 5, Interesting
    There are a lot of these little guys popping up on the market, yet all of them use a physical connection. Is there some inherent technical problem with using an 802.11b device to stream the music?

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    The only reason I keep my Windows partition is so I can mount it like the bitch that it is.
  3. Re:why by YrWrstNtmr · · Score: 4, Interesting

    why do they have to make these so big??

    1. space for all the connections in the back

    2. power amp cooling. Driving serious power to multiple large speakers takes power. That heat needs to be dissipated.

    3. It looks better