22-Aug-2014, 19:08
(22-Aug-2014, 18:27)Rufus McDufus Wrote: Thank Georgethesixth! I have to admit I've had my eye on a NUC. I'm currently running it off my regular PC which is a bit of a gaming monster. I have an old Asus Eee PC which is doing nothing and might transfer to in the interim. I've run jRiver on this in the past and surprisingly it wasn't too bad. I'm aware it's not audiophile-optimized though, having spinny disks rather than SSD for instance.
Your gaming monster has probably a lot of memory : you can configure Jriver to preload tracks in memory. That way, most issues with disk latency can be dumped.
Our music is stored on NAS-box with spinny disks. I did a load test (bandwidth, memory and CPU) on the NAS while playing music from memory in Jriver : no quality issues whatsoever. One track started late because Jriver could not prefetch the number but that is to be expected.
