2011/10/9 Robin Gareus <robin@xxxxxxxxxx>: > 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 :-) Just to add my opinion: we run mythbuntu as our main TV etc. Its music player is OK, but nowhere near as good as almost any other media player (banshee, mpd, amarok, songbird...). I end up using banshee rather than myth's own player. If you're mainly thinking of music playback, don't start with mythtv! It's very cool for TV though. Dan _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
