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 _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
