lrossouw wrote: > You kind of painted yourself into a corner here. You have complicated > requirements, particularly point 2. Thanks for your response. (2) is vital. I cannot play classical music sensibly without it. It really hard for me to understand why people think this is complex. I want to play classical works consisting of one or more tracks, and sometimes randomly. Because the idiots who invented the tagging formats didn't have a clue what they were doing we have been left with a ridiculous mess.... rant over for now :)
> > I see 3/4 options: > > 1) If you let 2 go I would suggest something like plex server on linux. > I think it has DLNA features but it doesn't have the complicated browse > menus. I have it but don't use DLNA or the music features so not sure > how well it works. You possibly need to let go 4 as well. This also > means you won't be using LMS. https://plex.tv/ (that's 3 > requirements down). It has web interfaces and apps though. > plex is not that good. minimserver is much better, but has no random play of 'works'. > > 2) Use LMS and somehow get it converted to the way you want. Hit's all > your points but not 9. I think it will be tricky to set up and > difficult to work with. > I am getting there. Finding out how to do it without programming something new is not easy, but I'm currently testing a solution that is running CD quality sound to 2 different renderers and doesn't need any user interfaces (ie just boot the server) apart from the LMS web interface itself and selecting a 'stream' on the renderer when I start. > > 3) LMS has some upnp functionality. But I have no idea how it works. I > think it acts more as a client playing other sources than anything else. > Check under settings/advanced/network. It also acts as a server so you > should be able to play stuff from your amp already. But it doesn't show > up as a player AFAIK. > It's very limited. I use it for pictures to my TV, but the user interface, even with a decent upnp controller, is limited and doesn't handle classical well at all. > > 4) Set up one little box (which you have already in the form of an SB). > Get one of the boards for which images exist on this forum. Write that > image and you are set to go. Hit's all your points except 7. And most > of these are so small you can hide them anyway. The whole point of the exercise was to see if it is possible to avoid hardware (it has nothing to do with size). Looking at forum entries about the Touch, EDO, squeezelite on Raspberry Pis etc, this is not as simple as some suggest. In addition, if your DAC only has a USB input there's a choice of different kernels and several people have found it very hard to make it all work. I will report after more tests (if anyone is interested!) LMS 7.9 on VortexBox Midi running Xubuntu 14.04, FLACs 16->24 bit, 44.1->192kbps. Wired Touch + EDO, coax to Musical Fidelity M1 CLiC. Wireless Xubuntu 14.04 laptop controls LMS via Chromium. Meridian Explorer USB DAC to listen via Squeezelite on Vortexbox & other PCs as required. Spare Touch in loft. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PasTim's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=41642 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=101622 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
