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squeezebox and home network

From reading about Squeezebox, it seems such a good idea. However, my computer knowledge is very limited and I hope fellow Audiogoners can help me out a bit.

My home is a recently constructed and it is wired with Cat-5 cable and I can see wall plugs in every room where I can plug in a network cable. The sales manager told me that I can set up a network down in the basement where the cable and telephone wire come in.

If that’s the case, ie, I set up the network and any computer plugged into the wall can join the network, then I can just use Squeezebox Ethernet connection rather than the wireless connection, right? Would that improve sound quality somewhat?

Also, if I rip cd and store them on a hard drive, using EAC, no compression, what’s the size of the hard drive I need to have , say per 200 cd.

Thanks
ddl24

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ddl24 OP
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Thanks Coffee_nudge and Mimberman. If using FLAC lossless compression will save disk space without negative impact on audio quality, then I am all for it. My actual disc collection is around 600-800 which I hope will continue to grow. So I need quite some storage space. I have no idea what Raid storage so I will do some research.

I have an 4-5 yr old spare Notebook in storage and I planned to use that and get an extrnal storage hardware (harddrive or Raid) thru USB connection and network the whole house. So I can connect Squeezebox thru Cat5 that way. From computing stand of view, will this work? Since all I need is storage space and minimum processing power, so I figuered a old notebook should work. right? Thanks again.
ddl24 OP
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Thanks again for everyone's input. Edesilva, Thanks for the recommendation on the Raid. I have the Leviton's Advanced Home Telephone and Video Panel down in the basement. http://www.leviton-lin.com/catalog/BuildPage.aspx?BuildPageID=572

I need to find out how that thing works first as the builder didn't give me any manual or instrucion for it. 1 Terybite might be too big for me for the moment and so I will get something that about 1/4 of that capacity and as my cd collection grow, I can increase the capacity and it will only get cheaper. Thanks.

rich
ddl24 OP
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This is going to be my next project. Do you mind I email you few questions if I run into some issues? Thanks.

Rich
ddl24 OP
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Edesilva, thanks for your advise again. The above thread was meant to ask you if I can email you if I ran into some issues. Thanks.
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