I think I have finally got cheesed off with my SBT and NAS drive. I'm trying to establish if I start afresh or just refresh the existing SBT based system and put up with the inherent issues. I'm afraid I don't have sufficient time to research all the Raspberry Pi/PC/MAC optiosn to only find out there is another set of major issues!
Current setup
1) SBT with digital out only via the plugin.
2) Netgear duo NAS drive hard hard wired through a network router and on a totally seperate network the main house network.
3) All media ripped via EAC (on a laptop) and in mainly WAV and file names/folder names formatted by EAC (predominantly 44.1kHz 16 bit). Probably 1TB of audio data.
4) External old school Kinshaw Perception DAC (I've tried a few DACS and so far this is my favourite, I'd stomach sticking to 16bit to keep it rather than upgrade for the rare media that is available in HD) I still have an audiosector NOS DAC and Beresford bushmaster with external PSU so I guess I could consider having 2 digital outs and run 1 to the Beresford for HD stuff.
Issues:-
A) it's a ballache ripping new CDs via EAC and transferring and rescanning for the SBT.
B) The NAS/SBT need rebooting in the event of a power outage (which is relatively frequent here although I guess I coudl live with it).
C) It's just a bit too "clunky" in use.
Ideally I'd like an all in one that
will rip CDs,
incorporate the HD/storage (I'd probably look at SSD now),
has a facility to easily navigate music choices remotely via tablet or mobile phone (definitely not TV screen and ideally not a touchscreen located on the device.)
Has digital co-ax out to feed a DAC located on the other side of the room.
Is there anything that will do this in a sensible budget or am I in the realm of needing an expensive dedicated media streamer from one of the big brands?
Any help greatly appreciated.