To be fair, I think it's only the web UI that the article is criticising, not the various IOS / Android apps, several of which he calls out as good. And he rates some combinations better than Roon which can't be bad.
Personally, I think the web UI is fine - easy to use and intuitive (well at least for an old fart like me). I have the left pane maximised with large artwork and a sort order of artist - year - album (where appropriate). I have no artwork showing in the right pane - just the play list. Just click on a track in either pane for all the extra info you might need. There's extra skins if you're obsessive about appearance. What's not to like? The only real thing I'd like (mentioned in an earlier thread started by me) is the ability to include "pointers" to non-local music (e.g. Spotify or Tidal albums) in the library so that LMS effectively integrates local music and streaming services like Roon. But Michael Herger has already said that this would be a significant chunk of work which, frankly, is unlikely to happen. And I haven't found a work around yet apart from putting the Spotty pointer in a Favorites folder in LMS as a quick way of reminding me about the albums and accessing them. The rest of Darko's article is relatively complementary, even though I don't know if a souped-up Raspberry Pi sounds significantly better into a decent DAC than the stock SBT digital out. Darko says "An audio HAT like those offered by ALLO, HifiBerry, JustBoom will see our Pi-Squeeze comfortably surpass the Squeezebox Touch on sound quality (with analogue OR digital)." Let me stress - I haven't heard a Pi+HAT so have no evidence either way. Anyway, I think it's nice to see good old SBT and LMS getting some new and relatively favourable press here in 2019. Cheers -Seen it all, done it all, can't remember most of it ...- Server = iMac -> Bootcamp -> W10 (dBpoweramp ripping / MediaMonkey management) Router = Huawei B310 LTE 4G + repeaters Lounge = SBT -> Devialet D200 -> Dynaudio Contour 1.8 MkII Covered terrace = SBT -> AudioEngine A5+ Study = SBT -> NAD D3020 -> Epos K1 Kitchen + bedroom = SB Radio Garage = SB2 -> Rotel RA820BX2 -> MA252 Storage = SB Boom + SB3 + SlimP3 iOS control = iPeng / SqueezePad; Android = SqueezeCommander; ------------------------------------------------------------------------ GRC's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=13846 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=110634
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