Re: [RDD] Centralized RD System?

[Cowboy <curt@xxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 03 July 2009 01:37 pm, Michael Barnes wrote:
>  A crazy thought just entered my mind.  Has anyone considered a centralized 
>  type RD system?  I'm thinking of one "superserver" that would hold all 
>  audio, database, etc. plus all the audio cards.  Then have workstations run 
>  the apps remotely,   

 That was one of the original design concepts.

 Part of the reason for the modularity is that things like RDAirPlay
 do not themselves play the audio. CAED does that, so you can
 theoretically run AirPlay anywhere, yet CAED still feeds the STL.

 Some things have changed since the original concept, so it may
 not work as well as originally envisioned.
 Things like "real time" audio meters kinda screw up that plan, but
 originally you could run the whole silly thing from a command line
 with no GUI at all, so no fancy bells and whistles.

 The speed and reliability of the network link also can come into play.

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