RoyalScam wrote: 
> See…I know nothing about Squeezebox. Is there an advantage or
> disadvantage to using my Onkyo as a Squeezebox? What does that even
> mean?

LMS is a music center system. It helps you manage your music library and
search/play tracks, create playlists, access streaming services and so
on. It has clients to control it from a web browser but also from your
smartphone. Normally, players should be specialized devices named
"squeezeboxes". They are not produced anymore by Logitech, but some
clones can be created using a raspberry Pi and some weirdos like me have
made "bridges" that allow airplay/chromecast/upnp players to fake a real
squeezebox and integrate them into the LMS "ecosystem". One important
feature of LMS is to be able to play synchronized music on multiple
players, but that does *not* work with upnp or chromecast.

Now, if you have only one UPnP device, don't know about LMS and just
want to organize your library, there are other solutions that are UPnP
aware and which might be easier to use (I don't want to say better
because I don't want to start a useless heated debate and I don't have a
strong opinion anyway).

Using my bridge is fine, but UPnP players can be temperamental and can
be frustrating to tweak to work well under LMS. 

Now, here you have a really good community of people that will help you.



LMS 8.2 on Odroid-C4 - *SqueezeAMP!*, 5xRadio, 5xBoom, 2xDuet, 1xTouch,
1xSB3. Sonos PLAY:3, PLAY:5, Marantz NR1603, Foobar2000, ShairPortW,
2xChromecast Audio, Chromecast v1 and v2, Squeezelite on Pi,  Yamaha
WX-010, AppleTV 4, Airport Express, GGMM E5, RivaArena 1 & 3
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