[email protected] wrote: > I've heavily used several Squeezeboxes and Boom Boxes for years, but I'm > ready to throw them all in the trash. > > I just wasted several hours in an unsuccessful attempt to get > squeezeboxserver (or logitechmediaserver, or slimserver, or whatever > it's called this week) running again on a Debian Jesse system after an > apt-get upgrade broke it. > > I've lost track of how many times in the past my server has abruptly > stopped working after I've updated some obscure library or piece of Perl > on my system, and I've had to dig into the code to find out why. Users > shouldn't have to be skilled programmers just to play the music in their > libraries. > > The Squeezebox hardware is nicely designed, but it is quite frankly > useless without reliable software to drive it. Perl was designed to > crunch Linux system logs and generate reports, which it barely does. > It's far too fragile a foundation on which to build a huge application > like a music storage and retrieval system with thousands of gratuitous > bells and whistles. It's also extremely slow even on fast modern > hardware. > > Has anyone considered a simple server to drive Squeezebox hardware as a > bare-bones network audio output device? I suspect I'm like most people > in that I control my player from my computer, not the Squeezebox's own > display and IR remote, so much of the software functionality just isn't > necessary. It doesn't really need to do anything but accept a raw audio > stream from a player like VLC or iTunes, possibly transcode it, and ship > it over the network to the player. > > --Phil
After many years of chasing the Dream - ooooh! look an upgrade to OS The Best Ever ver.2.00267, or whatever ... I adopt the principle of If It Ain'T Broke, Don't Fix It Outcome - a system which works with very little in the way of problems I have LMS running on Fedora, Ubuntu and Debian - none of which are the latest and greatest - end result, rock solid systems and virtually no maintenance. Touch - Muse M50 EX TPA3123 T-Amp Mini - Acoustics Q10 speakers Logitech Radio + remote Raspberry Pi + Squeezeplug LMS + Squeezelite - Logitech Mini Boombox speaker Cubieboard + Fedora 18 + LMS 7.8 + Squeezelite - Soundwave SW100 bluetooth speaker O2 Joggler + SqpOS + Aune X2 T-amp + Mordaunt Short ms-3.40 speakers ------------------------------------------------------------------------ castalla's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=15624 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=97881 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
