Music Server now bane of my existence


After years of waiting and rendering the landscape of servers as too complex, confusing and basically useless for my purposes, I've delved into the world of a Mojo Audio music server. The Biggest Dog they sell. Now, I've determined I'm technically in over my head and run out of invectives.

I need a "Music Server for Dummies" lexicon and flow chart. Yes, I will contact them this week also.

To my surprise, there is no drive with the new Mini Mac. So I need that. And how will I burn discs for friends? And do I just use the USB out from the server to my USB DAC for optimal playback? Which USB? Or should it be a USB conversion to coaxial? I researched and purchased a 3TB Western Digital hard drive for dedicated backup. Will that suffice for this?

I purchased the Apple wireless keyboard and outboard trac-pad to navigate.

I'm at a crossroads as to continue with predictable brain damage assembling all of the parts or return this and wait again for this industry to collectively simplify the process. I've gone with the MAC so I can easily interface with my iPod pieces. Thank you to all for insight into this gnarly subject.
celtic66

Showing 1 response by almarg

I haven't taken the time to read through this thread, as Kijanki has probably already said pretty much anything I would have.

But I noticed cloud storage being mentioned earlier as a possible means of backup, and I just want to point out that it should be kept in mind that if the need ever arises to download an entire large music collection from a cloud backup, the amount of time required will probably be absurd.

For example, if a hard drive containing 1 terabyte of data were to fail, downloading that 1 terabyte via a 15 mbps cable connection would take more than 6 days of 24/7 operation. And possibly much more than that, if the download speed is limited by anything other than the local internet connection.

Regards,
-- Al