rbl wrote: > It sounds like Raspian will give me a fully functional Pi with LMS still > working 100% which is its main purpose. > > I am an oldie - grew up on MS-DOS (and still prefer it to Windows > explorer much of the time) and C/C++, but I have never touched Unix. is > Raspian going to be a big learning curve as I don't have a lot of time > at the moment, in which case Ill go for piCorePlayer?
+1 for the PcP route. My experience i case it helps your decision making. I was running LMS on windows and tired of having the keep my desktop on, or, after shutting down the PC, wondering "what happened to the music?"? With the help of many in this community I built a PcP on a pi3B+ with a 2TB USB HDD as a LMS Server only. Hardware total about $USD100. Super easy. Then I built another for my seasonal cabin. I am retired so they play all the time when I am there. Rock solid. I could not be happier. I have built 2 others for friends. An additional benefit - I don't do cloud and the power is not on at the cabin when I am not there, so I had to decide how to keep my two libraries in sync. I got another HDD that I call the "Travel HDD". I setup FreeFileSync so that I can run it when I am getting ready to go from one location to another, and sync when I arrive. The bonus is in using Samba on the PCP, I can access the free space on the HDD to backup my user files from one location to another in the same sync. That way, not only do I have file backup at home, I also have one at another location, and visa versa. I also can't tell you how many times I was looking for file and realized it was on the desktop of the other location, and smiled because I could just access it through the backup HDD locally. I know that in this day of clouds, and network over the internet what I do is a bit Fred Flintstone, but it is easy once setup, and it works for me. Just thought I would share my experience. Many thanks to the SB founding fathers, PcP developers, and all of the friendly support on this forum. ALOT of people spend ALOT of time helping others Jim ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Redrum's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=33806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=112025 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
