> My music collection is about 500GB and it is unlikely to grow much as I
> use Tidal for half my listening now, so I was wondering about fitting a
> 1TB SSD instead of the small HDD and this would also make the box silent
> as it is already fanless.
Sounds like a great plan.
> Does LMS allow the collection to be split over different discs? I
> think it does but I've never tried it...
Yes, you can define multiple music folders.
> Also, any opinions about using a standard distro like Ubuntu and
> installing LMS on that vs a specific system like Daphile?
I don't, as I've never used one of the specialized distributions. One
issue you're likely not to face with them, but likely to face with
Ubuntu is the latter's desire to always run bleeding edge code. Eg. the
next update might come with a different Perl version, breaking
compatibility with LMS etc. That's unlikely to happen with
Daphile/Vortexbox etc.
--
Michael
> use Tidal for half my listening now, so I was wondering about fitting a
> 1TB SSD instead of the small HDD and this would also make the box silent
> as it is already fanless.
Sounds like a great plan.
> Does LMS allow the collection to be split over different discs? I
> think it does but I've never tried it...
Yes, you can define multiple music folders.
> Also, any opinions about using a standard distro like Ubuntu and
> installing LMS on that vs a specific system like Daphile?
I don't, as I've never used one of the specialized distributions. One
issue you're likely not to face with them, but likely to face with
Ubuntu is the latter's desire to always run bleeding edge code. Eg. the
next update might come with a different Perl version, breaking
compatibility with LMS etc. That's unlikely to happen with
Daphile/Vortexbox etc.
--
Michael