So, just to investigate this a bit further, to make sure I don't make any conclusions based on guesses.
My current setup looks like this: - A Squeezebox Radio in my bedroom which is used as alarm clock in the mornings and listening to music while going to sleep or waking up. Automatic turn of after a certain interval in the evening is nice but powering on and playing music at a specific time in the morning is a must. I mostly listen to dynamic smart playlists playing either random tracks from the favorite parts of my library or random tracks among those recently purchased. It's always controlled with the buttons on the Radio itself, never from a remote control as those tends to be somewhere else when the alarm triggers in the morning and I don't want to get out of the bed. - A Squeezebox Touch in the listening room connected via analogue connections to the Sherwood receiver (neither supports AirPlay nor UPnP). This player is controlled either with a Harmony IR remote or an iPad, IR remote if I just want to play a smart playlist and iPad if I want to browse the library and try to find something specific to play. - A Squeezebox Boom in the kitchen which is used now and then to play music, both smart playlists and specific albums. Sometimes controlled with the buttons directly on the Boom but mostly using an iPad or iPhone. (I've more players than the ones described above, but it's only the above ones I consider to be critical) - Audio quality is important in listening room but less important in the other rooms. - Available space is restricted in bedroom and kitchen, so the devices in these rooms can't be much bigger than the Radio and Boom I have today. - All players needs to be able to play both files on my central NAS (QNAP) and Spotify tracks, currently it's handled via a Linux server running LMS. - The local files on the NAS are all in FLAC format, so support for FLAC is a must. - I rarely sync players, it sometimes happens between kitchen and listening room but this is not a critical functionality for me. - The setup needs to be stable and I rarely have crashes in the current setup and I like to keep that situations. Reboots/restarts with an interval of a month or so is ok as I do this already today when upgrading server software or player firmware. - Support for Internet radio except for Spotify is nice but not a must, support for Spotify is a strict requirement. - Gapless playback is nice but not a strict requirement. - I don't want to be forced to turn on TV to listen to music in the listening room, the kitchen and bedroom doesn't even have a TV so there a TV controlled devices isn't even an option. - Regarding smart playlists it doesn't need to be that advanced but as a minimum I need to be able to: -- Exclude tracks I rarely want to hear but still want to keep in my library -- Restrict the playlist to tracks added during the last two months For my personal setup any software have to run either on Mac or Linux as that's all I have, but let's not restrict the answers to this as Windows still is pretty popular as desktop/laptop computers among other users. Now, let's say I would like to replace all this setup with something completely based on UPnP, are there any recommendations from someone that believes in UPnP and know it's possible to accomplish something that works with UPnP ? Is it even possible to accomplish something similar with a UPnP based solution ? In that case what hardware/software do I need to get ? Don't restrict the answers to what I currently have, to make it easy let's assume I don't have anything and want to accomplish a system like described above based on UPnP. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ erland's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3124 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=95603 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
