TheLastMan wrote: > All working fine now, thanks! Doddle to set up as before, and I will > have to change my sig. My other piCorePlayers have been just players > linked to my NAS. This one has LMS installed as well which is a > revelation compared to my Synology. I have two mirrored music libraries > which I keep on the NAS, one in FLAC the other MP3 (mainly for my > phone). The latter takes up 80GB so have copied it onto a 128GB micro > sized memory stick plugged into one of the USB sockets on the RPi. It > took less than 2 minutes to scan 12,000 files! It also starts up in a > couple of seconds. I think I will move my music library from the NAS to > a portable SSD plugged into one of my piCorePlayers. > > Much chuffed! My 17 year old son has now come back to my SB system > having abandoned it some years back to use a bluetooth speaker and his > phone. He has had two big noisy parties recently, one for his birthday > and one for NYE. He was very impressed that he was able to sync the > music in three rooms in the house from his phone using the Orange > Squeeze app and the Spotty plugin. All without spending thousands on > Sonos kit. > > He wanted one for his bedroom, so the idea was to build this one for > him. Think I might keep this one as a portable player instead. He has > inherited the "geek" gene, so I will give him the bits and let him build > his own. Knowing him he will make a proper case, include an amp, touch > screen etc. > > Thanks to all the volunteers out there who make this possible. My SB > setup is over 11 years old now and just as impressive as it was the day > I got it. How much other tech can you say that about?
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