To start, I was once a diehard foobar supporter. But I give up with FooBar. I have had it up and working for a bit, but it seems that every time I turn around something else had gone wrong and I don't know why. So I made up my mind that I will chuck FooBar and spend the money for a JRiver license with the hopes that I can get something that is rock solid stable and just stays that way.
So the question to ask is how would you set it up? I have two intel NUC's that I could use.
an Intel NUC NUC5PGYH - Intel Pentium N3700 1.60 GHz - 4 GB Ram (might be 8, I can't remember). with a 32gb SSD. with Win10 installed
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Intel NUC5CPYH - Intel Celeron N3050 1.60 GHz 2Gb ram and 64gb HD to run Debian Linux as I read that is the best distro for support with JRiver.
The Win10 box will be also running the Anthem ARC software along with a few other background apps. The Linux box can be a dedicated device all to itself. The Win10 is effectively a faster processor, but the Celeron N3050 has worked pretty fine when I had it running OpenELEC (kodi), so it should be able to handle JRiver as a stand sole app under Debian Linux.
So The ultimate question will be, so I run through the process of setting up Debian on the Celeron? And what features and functionality will I be giving up in the process of going with a Linux install over a Windows one? I am mainly looking to get music out of the box, but as I was using this celeron to run Kodi, and I hear that JRiver can do pretty much everything kodi does for watching the occasional movie or TV show that I have on my NAS (mkv), if the Linux install of JRiver will do that, then I will be golden tickled pink and be more than happy to splash down my $100 (cdn) and buy my license.
Are there other considerations of things that I would need to know before I delve in?