Here was my setup: two Squeezebox Receivers with Controller, Squeezebox Touch, LMS running on a Windows PC, music files stored on the Windows PC. Before that, I had LMS running on a Western Digital My Book Live (1tb), music files stored on the same. The latter setup was slow but quiet; the former setup was fast but noisy. Setting up the SBRs was fiddly, and the SBT was hidden in the back of my stereo cabinet -- who needs a touchscreen when all you need is a music player and your mobile is your remote?
Last fall I built two players using RPi2b, HiFi Dac+ and HiFi Digi+. At first, I didn't know what I was doing but there is a lot of information on the forum about how to build the players and set them up so the first try took me about half an hour -- and at least half of that time was devoted to figuring out how to put the case together. The Pi/Digi+ runs Max2Play and LMS on a 8gb microSD card. Music files are stored out of sight and sound on the My Book Live. The Pi/HiFi Dac+ runs piCorePlayer 1.21. Setting up the players -- Max2Play and piCorePlayer -- is through a Web interface. Really easy to do. Once the players are set up, your running LMS on the Pi/Max2Play finds them automatically. What surprised me is how efficiently the My Book Live serves the music files. Retrieval is nearly instantaneous on my network (all wired, no wifi) from both of my players (upstairs and downstairs). If you like the Touch form factor (the touchscreen, the stand, the remote etc.) by all means start with that. However, I believe that the SBT is more player than needed if that is all you use it for; and unlike the Pi/Max2Play, the SBT won't run LMS. So you are still have to figure out how you are going to run LMS (NAS? PC? HTPC? something else?) and where your music files will be stored (USB drive? NAS? PC? HTPC? something else?). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TimT's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=22971 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=105439 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
