For another perspective, My RPi journey ...
I discontinued use of my RPi as an LMS server. I had it connected to both an external USB3 drive and later a Zyxel NAS326. Configuration relatively simple and it worked. Mostly. Why mostly? I have a very large library: 3400 albums (vast majority classical, choral, opera, and jazz); 51,000 tracks. The horsepower of the RPi was capable of playing this collection (I have a Classic3 and an SB Radio, so nothing complicated there). What I could hardly do was add to it ... when I asked LMS to rescan for new or changed music I had to wait hours for its completion. There are elements of the LMS ui that are not available during this time, mainly Genre, which is my preferred way of using LMS. I initially used piCP but hated having to delete-and-reinstall to update, especially with the rebuild library that required. I shifted to using a German RPi/LMS product called Max2Play, which is a nice web UI that also includes options for most of the audio add-on boards. It's fault is that periodically, for me, at some future date after install and setup, the web UI would freak .... requiring a effing reinstall and library rescan. Finally I did things the hard way and installed & configured the build of Debian for RPi on a new RPi board. Again all worked, but library rescans remained abysmally long. Discovered that the Zyxel NAS326 comes with an older build of LMS7.2 so figured what do I have to loose and gave it a try. Works very well, to my surprise. I don't know if it's the 4Gb mirrored drives, or having them attached to the same board running the NAS326 software (a linux variant), but the library rescans are much faster, though not as fast as I'd prefer, but better. I don't thus have the latest and greatest LMS Mike, et. al have written for us because updating the NAS326 to use it is hard (dependencies are difficult to address via SSH to it), it does work, is stable, and thus I'm happy. So, upshot is that for me my 3400 album collection proved too much for the RPi horse power ONLY when rescanning the library, which was fairly frequent as I'm buying new albums all the time. Your mileage may vary. Regards, Guy On Sun, Dec 9, 2018, 8:32 AM DCtoDaylight < dctodaylight.8s0...@no-mx.forums.slimdevices.com wrote: > > Hi Guy's, > I'm in a similar situation, my 2007 vintage ubuntu box is showing it's > age, and I need to prepare for it's demise... The Raspberry PI is an > interesting option, so a couple of quick questions for those using one: > Does pCP run a simplified version of LMS, or is it the full deal? (like > the touch can run a simplified version) > Is there any issues using a moderate collection of Squeeze box clients? > I'm currently running 2 SB3's, a Touch, and a pair of Transporters. > Cheers, Dave > > > > Audiophile wish list: Zero Distortion, Infinite Signal to Noise Ratio, > and a Bandwidth from DC to Daylight > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > DCtoDaylight's Profile: > http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7284 > View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=109848 > > _______________________________________________ > Squeezecenter mailing list > Squeezecenter@lists.slimdevices.com > http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/squeezecenter >
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