PasTim wrote: > Like many I have been wondering what to do if my squeezebox devices > fail. Many of the solutions on various threads suggest hardware > replacements, and I'm a little puzzled as to why this is necessary at > all. > > LMS (with several plugins) is still far and away more flexible than > anything else I have found for organising and selecting music. For > instance, on no other system have I found a way to play a random > Classical Work (i.e. a randomly selected series of sequential series of > tracks on an album that makes up a classical work). The best non-LMS > server I have found is MinimServer (a UpNP server that has a really > clever way of selecting tracks and has many other good features), but it > can't do the more sophisticated stuff. > > I can control what LMS is doing from a wireless device with a browser > anywhere in the house. In my case I need a laptop or tablet since > classical tracks tend to have long names that occupy too much space on a > smartphone. > > I have good quality amplifiers connected to my wired home network. > These are UPnP compliant, and will accept streaming across my home > network. I have used foobar2000 (running under wine on linux) with a > UPnP plugin that provides a 'playback stream capture' mode. This > streams anything that foobar2000 is playing locally directly to my > amplifiers over the network using lpcm at up to 24/192,000 quality - > more than good enough for me. I therefore know that sending digital > audio in this way is possible. > > So 'all I need' is something like the excellent squeezelite (which I use > a lot when at my desktop PC), but instead of outputting to a local audio > device, replicates what foobar can do using UPnP over my wired network. > I don't mind that the amplifier won't display any information about what > is currently playing, since I am usually the other side of the room and > can't read it from there anyway. I use the browser for that. > > I really shouldn't need another hardware device, be it based on a > Raspberry Pi or Wandboard, with the attendant complexities involved. I > don't need another DAC, or discussions about async USB versus optical or > coax, different linux kernels and so on, much fun though such ideas > are. > > As a slightly playful experiment I did manage to get sound from > squeezelite to my amplifiers over my wired network without using the > Touch, utilising an over-complicated combination of tools pretending to > be an internet radio, but I couldn't get better quality than mp3 to > work, and I had too many bits of software in the chain to make it > practical (squeezelite to high quality audio, monitored by vlc, streamed > to a local http address, picked up via minimserver in a playlist and > played by my renderer). Any attempt to stream wav (or flac) from vlc > failed, and I'm guessing that is because I don't understand http > streaming technology well enough. However, this really doesn't matter > because this isn't a sensible solution, involving far too many > intermediate steps. > > So, is there any chance that some clever developer could produce > something like squeezelite (so I can continue to use LMS as the > best-in-class server) but get it to stream over a network to a UPnP > renderer at high (but selectable) quality, rather than outputting to a > local audio device? Is the reason no such solution seems to exist is > that there are technical downsides of which I am unaware? Or does > someone out there know of an existing solution? > > Or am I just being daft.....?
I totally agree with you. The LMS music system with plugins is the most flexible music system on the market. Therefore I today got my fingers in a second Transporter for my kitchen. It runs balanced directly to a pair of active studio monitors. Sounds great :) . I love the flexibility to create playlists with dynamic playlists from my own library and combine them new music playlists from Wimp-hifi (flac streaming). My kids have a receiver and active speakers too. They mostly listen to Wimp. And the I have a receiver in the bedroom too. So I am not going away from my SB-system in years from now.... I am upgrading it...... :) The software is also rock solid now, and even on the ReadyNas the upgrades works like a charm now. LONG LIVE LMS :) Callesoroe Living room: Transporter, Tact RCS 2.2X digital preamp, Martin Logan Vista speakers, AMPS(Icepower): Acoustic Reality Ear Enigma PLUS(PANELS), Acoustic Reality Ear TWO MKII(Bas) Kitchen: SB-duet, Beresford TC7510 DAC, Prodipe Pro 5 active bi-amp speakers. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ callesoroe's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=22693 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=101622 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
