garym wrote: > Because of a problem with my main LMS server unit, I built a pi-3B+ > running picoreplayer (ver 4.1.0). I have attached a USB 3 portable > drive. I have about 100,000 tracks, mostly FLAC, some mp3 or m4a. Mostly > 16/44.1 files with a handful of 24/96 files. > > My observation is that the pi does a great job running LMS. No problem > with serving files, including to two or three synched players. I > expected this part would be fine. I assumed that the browsing and > searching would be very slow. But for browsing I find it very snappy > (within album artist or within album, for example). And even searching > seems relatively fast. This surprises me. > > Great job! (2nd donation just made). Am I just lucky or can this little > pi really function well as a server with a 100k+ library. (I recall > starting my squeezebox journey with squeezeserver running on a ReadyNas > Duo (v1) and it was painful to browse on even a 40k library).
I have piCorePlayer running on a Rasp Pi 3. I have LMS running on it, I also have a 500GB USB SSD drive connected that is SAMBA served. I use dbPowerAmp on my Windows PC to rip CDs to the SSD on the RPI and the RPI has a Allo Spdif board on it that feeds a DAC. It also acts via the network as a server to another RPI with an Allo Spdif board (no disk) that feeds it music file remotely. The music on both systems sounds awesome and the system is super snappy, I don't see a difference in the system with the disk locally attached or remotely with the system attached via a wireless network. I ordered a RPI 4 and am waiting for piCorePlayer to officially support the RPI 4 as I want to add disk mirroring to the system that has the SSD mounted on it for reliability. SSDs are reliable but I would hate to have to rip all those CDs again. I also want to add a built in display for the system with the disks that has a touch screen. I need the extra memory of the RPI 4 to do all of that but I am super satisfied with the setup. The only glitch that I have is that if my wireless goes down the remote system gets a little confused sometimes even the local RPI but its not to hard to reset. Good luck with your setup, I really love piCorePlayer and can't wait for it to be ported to the RPI 4. Regards ------------------------------------------------------------------------ sweiss42's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=68178 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=109404 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
