losinj wrote: > Having been on good terms with LMS 7.7.2 running on a low-powered NAS - > a QNAP TS-112P, which is ARM-based and (I read somewhere) old by today's > standards, I'd like to ask the forum if there are any reasons I should > NOT install 7.7.5 (LMS keeps prompting me to update). If it's good to > go, should I now use 7.7.6? > > I've also been trying to find out whether my NAS is capable of running > versions of LMS later than 7.7.5/6, but without really knowing if it > would benefit from it. Even if so, I'm a bit put off by reading about > issues with things like plugin updates, requiring manual changes in > Linux, which I'm not familiar with. > > If anything should go wrong with the installation, can I easily revert > to 7.7.2? > > Thanks in advance for any advice. (I'm also going to post this in the > QNAP LMS forum.) > > Current system info: > > NAS firmware is up-to-date, with QTS version 4.3.3.0299 > > SSOTS Release 4.14 Modified for LMS 7.7.2 > > Operating system: Linux - EN - utf8 > Platform Architecture: armv5tel-linux > Perl Version: 5.10.0 - armv5tel-linux-thread-multi > Database Version: DBD::SQLite 1.34_01 (sqlite 3.7.7.1) > Total Players Recognized: 1 (Squeezebox Touch) > > Primary plugins: > Custom Browse v2.15.676 > Custom Clock Helper v2.11.94 > Custom Scan v2.10.51 > Multi Library (pop and classical local libraries) > Music Information Screen v4.4.11 > Playlist Manager v6.1 > TIDAL v1.2
Another option would be to get a Raspberry Pi, install piCorePlayer and LMS version 7.9.1, and point it at the music files on the NAS. This is what I've done with my QNAP NAS, and it works very well. Robert *Home: *Raspberry Pi 3/piCoreplayer/LMS7.9 with files on QNAP TS-239 Touch > DacMagic 100 > Naim Audio Nait 3 > Mission 752 (plus Rega Planar 3 and Naim CD3) PiCorePlayer(Pi2) with touchscreen and IQAudIO DAC+>Sennheisers 2 x Squeezebox Radios, 1 X Squeezebox 3 (retired) *Office:* LMS7.9 running on WiFi MyPassport drive > piCorePlayer(PiB)/HiFiBerryDAC > Amptastic Amplifier SqueezePad, iPeng as controllers last.fm/user/GrumpyBob ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Grumpy Bob's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=41857 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=108135 _______________________________________________ Squeezecenter mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/squeezecenter
