zzffnn
Headphoneus Supremus
- Joined
- Jun 26, 2009
- Posts
- 1,619
- Likes
- 66
Edit: This is an old post / old approach, which is mainly used in home setting. See 2nd post for truly portable streaming.
Please share you user experiences herein, if you have use a NAS as a flac server to stream to portable devices. Experiences from any similar devices (any NAS, any portables) are welcome.
My further plan is:
1) For portable use:
Synology DS212j (with Tb's of flac music on hdd's) --> DS Audio or PlugPlayer --> iPhone 3GS --> headphones
2) For stationary use:
Synology DS212j (with Tb's of flac music on hdd's) --> DS Audio or PlugPlayer --> iPhone 3GS --> Pure i20 optical or coaxial digital output --> external DAC / amp --> headphones
Please comment and include specifics (device model name, software used, ect). Comparison between different NAS' would be particularly nice. Thanks.
Edit January 2014:
This thread may become obsolete soon, in view of the availability of 1TB USB flash drive.
With a portable DAP with USB OTG functio, you may be able to add 256GB-1TB of USB flash storage now.
Kingston DataTraveler HyperX 3.0 USB flash drive offers up to 1TB of USB flash storage:
http://www.kingston.com/us/usb/personal_business#DTHXP30
http://www.kingston.com/us/company/press/article/6487
1TB USB flash drive is available now for $1260:
https://www.google.com/shopping/product/12138170325661239202?q=kingston%20Traveler%20HyperX%20Predator&es_sm=93&biw=1366&bih=666&dpr=1&sa=X&ei=d2bVUrbUHbDKsQTchYLQAg&ved=0CPwDEJwVKAAwAA&prds=scoring:tp
512GB for $530:
https://www.google.com/shopping/product/12889624063367181784?q=kingston%20Traveler%20HyperX%20Predator&es_sm=93&biw=1366&bih=666&dpr=1&ei=d2bVUrbUHbDKsQTchYLQAg&ved=0CIIEEKYrMAA&prds=scoring:tp
256GB for $300:
https://www.google.com/shopping/product/15155313190113380396?q=kingston+Traveler+HyperX+Predator&prds=hsec:specs&ved=0CA4Q4Ss&ei=P2fVUof-LMHa2AWp74HgDA
I said "you may be able to ...." as I haven't tried them myself. Kingston's web pages indicate that those USB flash drives are exFAT-formatted, backward compatible with USB 2.0 and will work for Windows, Mac and Linux. Assuming that no special driver is needed (as Kingston does not indicate such), I am speculating that those drives may be reformatted as FAT32 and work with any portable DAP with USB OTG function.