Since a few days I am listening to HQPlayer on the Mini. What I do know is that it’s lightning fast and ultra reliable. My HP server has all SSD disks in RAID100 which is done by a separate HP controller of which I don’t know anything. It took a while to perfect that, but that’s finished now. Also USB and ethernet interupt hooks are taken care of by separate cores. I am meticulous with core assignment and memory usage. I made my own Linux image on it, with my own Squeezelite.
I use both the Mac and the Totaldac d1-Server, which is no more than a refined Qubox. As long as we’re talking about PC’s and Mac’s. Like I said, the older the compiler/OS the better. You don’t want that while you’re playing music. All buffering and processing, administration and stuff is done there.
LMS was running on it, but since a few days it’s Roon 1.6. I have a sh*tload of music of all sorts and sizes stacked on my HP D元80 Gen8 friggin’ oversized Windows 12 server in my company’s datacenter. I assembled and compiled my own (old) version which was still in plain ol’ C. I always used Logitech Media Server as backend and Squeezelite as frontend. I bet you can hear the difference between for example two versions of Squeezelite.
#Mac mini media server code#
I am absolutely shure that the code generated by any other compiler than pure ol’ C is big and hefty. If anything, it sounds better, but that might just be happiness leaking into my ear canal. Instant, silent file access.Īside from disk-space limitations (I mean, now they have HUGE SSD’s, so this is less of an issue), are there any disadvantages to having the library on the same mini? I can’t hear any difference. (And keep the RAID as a secondary backup.) So I thought, let’s move the library to the secondary SSD on the CORE MINI. I’ve always hated hearing the RAID spin up when I’m calling for local files, and I was aware of a several-second delay in accessing those files. But I’m running so few applications, I figured I could just have the OS on one, DATA on the other.) (This was important when it was running the OS server at work. But the CORE MINI has two internal SSD’s.
As I mentioned in the first post, the library is stored on an external Thunderbolt RAID. Mine do run Mohave (which is the most current OS as of this post).Ĭurious about storage options, too.
#Mac mini media server software#
I do know that when we had these mini’s running server software at my office, we intentionally kept the OS at 10.9.5 I believe because OSX server became horribly dumbed down in later releases. Interesting about one OS sounding better (or best). The Mac is running OSX 10.9.5 which I will never ever update, since it’s the best sounding one.
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