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Hi Frederico,
On 10/09/2011 11:38 AM, Federico Bruni wrote:

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> Hi all,

>

> it's the first time I write in this mailing list and I hope I'm not OT.

> I'm looking for a hifi stereo system with USB support. I mean: I want to

> be able to plug an external USB hard disk, browse the folders and choose

> the files I want to listen to.

>

> I've found some products (by Cambridge Audio) that support all the

> formats I use, i.e. Ogg and Flac.

> But it seems that the only supported filesystem is FAT32.

> I wonder if you know some product which support some more advanced

> filesystem. Hopefully ext2/3/4, but even NTFS would be maybe better than

> FAT32.

>

> FAT32 is slow and doesn't support some characters in the file name. I

> know I'll have some problems copying my huge collection of files in a

> FAT32 filesystem.

>

> Any hint is appreciated.

> Thanks!

>

> Federico

I suppose you're looking for an off-the-shelf product, however what you

wish to accomplish is easily done by just taking an old laptop (or

similar) with a good audio-interface and simply install GNU/Linux.
There's quite a few OOTB "media-center" distributions:

  http://www.mythbuntu.org/

  http://www.geexbox.org/

...
Doings so should not take longer than finding a product that does what

you want :-)
An other approach is to simply get away with FAT32 and use tags to store

the information [instead of/in addition to] the file-name..
If your music is properly sorted in folder/filename, you can script

tagging or use easytag for mass-reassignments of your collection.
2c,

robin

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