Se/30 to read upnp nas drive

[SE30_Neal]

Hi Guys,

I have a question? Im wanting to get my SE/30 on my home network which i shall be doing shortly once my board is back from uniserver. The question is would it be possible for it to access my home media UPNP nas drive, if so would i be able to stream music via it, big ask i know! If not is it possible to be able to use software media/music controller to operate (play/stop/forward/backwards/skip) on my Naim network receiver using the SE/30 perhaps by building software in maybe hypercard or some other off the shelf music or controller software of the day. Obviously i have apps on my ipad n iPhone but thought it would be really cool to control my music via my little mac, any thoughts??

 

[techknight]

Your not going to be able to do any of those things.... 

You can only access the NAS via FTP, or if it still supports the old appletalk ethertalk standard. 

The SE/30 doesnt have the power to do MP3s or anything like that, However, it will do MIDI stuff just fine if you have an outboard MIDI device, and a DAC or some other type of MIDI system, using time period appropriate software. 

Anything to do with modern audio equipment, almost guaranteed you will have to do some sort of custom software development, and use the serial port. But the modern device must have the ability to interface to it remote control via serial. 

One of my projects in the line that i will probably never get to these days, was to build an external MP3 decoder board/stereo, etc with the ability to control the music content and even do VU meters on the SE/30. 

 

[CC_333]

An SE/30 will play WAV/AIFF files just fine, however, though it probably wouldn't sound so great (the SE/30 is only capable of playing at a sample rate of 22.5 kHz at 8-bits). Still better than nothing, and probably on par with a low bitrate MP3 anyway.

The only caveat to using those formats is that they're uncompressed, and thus require lots of drive space for material of any significant length (fortunately, getting adequate space for, say, 60 minutes of audio (which would be about 600 MB, +/- 100) in a form compatible with an old Mac is quite simple and relatively affordable nowadays).

With a stock 40 MB drive, though, you'd be lucky to get 1 or 2 minutes crammed in!

If you can log in to your NAS via telnet (unsecure, I know, but it's on a home network), you might be able to control some media app installed on it via the command line from the SE/30 by means of some terminal program (there are several out there, such as MacTerminal, but I don't know which ones would be better or worse).

c

 

[SE30_Neal]

Thanks Cc, once my board comes back i'll give it try im thinking maybe using the mac to control my amplifier is probably the easiest way to bypass the se/30 sound issue or hdd capacity.

 

[SE30_Neal]

Thanks technight i thought as much, i had hoped as the stereo is networked it might use some standard protocol to change tracks so thought it may have been possible with a small program but i thought it might have been a big ask. Back to the drawing board lol

 

[techknight]

Well if you know the protocol you could make your own app in codewarrior or MPW or something. 

 

[SE30_Neal]

Thanks technight, ill look into it

 

[SE30_Neal]

Thanks technight, ill look into it