wildgoose wrote: > Thanks everyone! Lots of good suggestions! I haven't fiddled much with > my setup. Looks like there are new things I know little about. :) > > I have a pi2 that's running rasPLEX client. Works fairly well for > playing movies. But it doesn't support h265 codec and no dts-ma > passthrough, so I am thinking of upgrading that to something like odroid > c2. If I do, then I have a spare pi2 that I can use for squeezebox > server. > > > > So, Max2Play is an OS for Pi that allows web control? and I can install > Squeezebox server on top of it. I assume I can mount my NAS share where > the music is. Tried to use the demo but doesn't work behind company > firewall.. will have to try it at home. > > > > piCorePlayer is easier to understand for me. I thought I saw some > reference about being able to run LMS on piCorePlayer, but wasn't sure. > Thanks for confirming. > > My music collection is not that big, and everything, including my 2 SB > player, is hard wired. So hopefully performance will be reasonable. A > few years ago I tried SB Server on ReadyNas Duo, it was dog slow compare > to my i7, so I stopped using it for that purpose. > > Regarding possible SD corruption for running these services, is there a > way I can redirect some of those log/db locations to the NAS?
You have a NAS! Run LMS on Pi2 - either picoreplayer or max2play - but point it at your NAS for storage. This is easy to do with either distro and if both the Pi & NAS are wired then it will work brilliantly. *Vortexbox LMS 7.9 music on QNAP TS419p via NFS* iThingys/iPeng/Tablets *Living Room* - SB3 -> Onkyo TS606 - > Celestion Ditton F20s - Zone 2 -> Sony TA FE 320 -> Sennheiser RS 130 & B&W P7 *Office* - RPi -> Sony TA FE320 -> Celestion F10s / SB3 -> Onkyo CRN 755 -> Wharfedale Modus Cubes *Dining Room* -> SB Boom *Kitchen* -> UE Radio (upgraded to SB Radio) *Bedroom (Bedside)* - SB Touch -> Topping TP21 -> AKG Headphones *Bedroom (TV)* - Amazon Fire TV (SB Player) -> Topping TP20 -> Wharfedale Modus Cubes ------------------------------------------------------------------------ d6jg's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=44051 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=106369 _______________________________________________ Squeezecenter mailing list Squeezecenter@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/squeezecenter
