New Router, New Streamer, New Questions


I have a Cambridge CXN100, my router died, my new ASUS comes with 2 USB ports. I have my external 3.0 USB HD plugged into the 3.0 port. It takes forever to load and be able to view my albums to make my selection in Streammagic . I know I have a large library (7.8TB) of music so maybe that's the issue. But my question is has anyone used the ASUS Media Server Setting? 

Thanks for your time and replies!

Bartmannm

bartmannm

Sounds like your router doesn’t have Ethernet ports. USB max throughout is rarely seen in real world applications.A Gigabit NAS is probably more appropriate for your application. 

The CXN100 has a USB input port for media, have you tried that? Or do you need it on the network for other systems? If so, the NAS is a good suggestion. 

I have tried using the USB input but my collection is too large and since steammagic only runs on my tablet or phone, it times out after 30 miutes then I have to toally reload the library...very frustrating and time consuming' I need to be listening to music! I see my shelf life approaching! LOL

In my experience, anything larger than maybe 1 or 2 TB worth of music really needs a dedicated server of some sort. Many of the "streamer" or "network player" devices (which is how Cambridge describes the CXN100) can accept USB drives with a moderate amount of music on them, but really aren't powerful enough to handle a larger library. 

Something like a Lumin, or maybe Aurender, Auralic, or Innuos Zen would do a vastly better job of dealing with such a big library. 

The other option is to check out Roon. You would run that on a different computer (either a dedicated server or just an existing computer on your network that you leave powered on all the time) and it handles all library management, album art, etc, then streams to your CXN100 over the network. Much much smoother more enjoyable process in my experience, although it has an extra cost and have a bit of learning curve to it. Once it is running I find it so much better than any other dedicated sever though, even the good ones like Innuos.