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.
> I’m 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. It’s not before it is no longer
> supported in future Debian versions that we have an issue. For the
> client devices, if my Touch dies, I’m sure I will get me a Community
> Squeeze / Wandboard device. For integrated speakers/clients, I just
> bought one of the latest (?) UE Radio’s and will probably buy another
> one. I like to have a simple all in one solution and don’t 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? I’m 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. What’s
> the contingency plan for this?
> Furthermore, I’m 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
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