MrRalph wrote: > Hi all. Like most of you I am very committed to the LMS / Squeezebox > eco-system. Planning to keep using it for years to come. My music > collections is painstakingly taged and has around 1900 albums in FLAC. > Im using a Touch for my main system and a Squeezebox 3 for second room > use. LMS 7.8 nightly home server on Debian and long time IPeng user and > very happy with it all. > > My thoughts and worries on continuing this model are as follows. For the > server version, I thing we are safe. 7.8 works perfectly and will keep > working for years to come I guess. Its not before it is no longer > supported in future Debian versions that we have an issue. For the > client devices, if my Touch dies, Im sure I will get me a Community > Squeeze / Wandboard device. For integrated speakers/clients, I just > bought one of the latest (?) UE Radios and will probably buy another > one. I like to have a simple all in one solution and dont see it coming > from Logitech and not so simple from third parties. So covered from that > angle as well. > > My concerns are twofold: what if Logitech stops Tomorrow with > mysqueezebox.com, will I still have internet radio through the TuneIn > app? Im really not sure if this will be affected. Another thing, with > this wealth of knowledge on these forums, what if Logitech stops > providing this hosted service. Do we have a backup or something. Whats > the contingency plan for this? > Furthermore, Im looking forward for using the great eco-system we have > for many years. All the best in 2014! > > Ralph
As I understand it, the later 7.8 LMS versions have built-in redundancy for Tunein (and should work if mysb goes away). You'd lose any favourites stored on mysb - so maybe worth making favourites local to LMS. Touch - Muse M50 EX TPA3123 T-Amp Mini - Acoustics Q10 speakers Logitech Radio Logitech UE Smart Radio 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=100711
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