Re: [Banshee-List] {OT} DAAP vs. NFS

["Andrew Conkling" <andrew conkling gmail com>]

On 10/24/06, Grant <emailgrant gmail com> wrote:
> > Use Tangerine [1]. Yes, FLAC should work. Decoding depends on the
> > client, not the server. In the near future, I'll be stripping the DAAP
> > server support from Banshee altogether and we will be using Tangerine
> > for this, which persists as a small daemon outside the Banshee process.
> >
> > Needless to say, Tangerine is the most supported and recommended DAAP
> > server for Banshee, and best suited for desktop usage. It's also
> > completely cross platform with native UIs for it (Linux/GTK, OS X/Cocoa,
> > Windows).
> >
> > [1] http://www.snorp.net/log/tangerine
> >
> > --Aaron
>
> That looks pretty slick.  Do you think there is any advantage to using
> DAAP/Tangerine instead of NFS with Banshee?  I've never used either,
> but it seems like Tangerine is probably easier to set up, but NFS is
> more flexible.  Is that what it comes down to?

That does look slick indeed.  What about those of us serving our music
from X-less boxes though?  That's why mt-daapd held so much promise
for me, until I found NFS.  Of course, that has its problems too....