castalla wrote: > Here's a suggestion. > > Using Android - install Streambels player. Enable upnp/dnla on LMS. In > streambels you can select a dlna device to play to. Use Streambels to > select LMS as the music source. Streambels can also play to airplay > devices or choose the phone/tablet speaker and enable bluetooth for > bluetooth speakers, etc. Eats the battery! > > For the money, the Raspi is a cheap easily configured alternative. I fear my initial post was too long :-)
I really want to use the full LMS interface. The LMS DLNA facility is very limited (In fact I do use it for viewing my photo albums on my TV, but that's a very different kettle of fish) and is not what I want at all. So: A. I need to use the full LMS. B. A software player such as Squeezelite is perfect, except... C. I want it to output directly over my wired network in the UPnP stream format, rather than to an audio device - that's all. To be honest another piece of hardware, running another version of linux, or android, is another device I have to maintain and worry about. I would need to work out whether I need to look at any security issues (there always are), update issues (there often are), read countless forum entries about which way to connect to my amplifier (conmisdering all sorts of topics I don't understand, like jitter), whether I need a tweaked kernel, and so on. All for a piece of kit I don't really want. It isn't the cost, it's the complication. Further, to connect to my other renderer in another room, do I need a second box? No. An extension to software we already must surely be one way to go for people who like simplicity. Come to think of it, by running multiple copies of a 'squeezelite-like' player I could probably get a reasonable multi-room sync if I had to, given existing tools in LMS. LMS 7.9 on VortexBox Midi running Xubuntu 14.04, FLACs 16->24 bit, 44.1->192kbps. Wired Touch + EDO, coax to Musical Fidelity M1 CLiC. Wireless Xubuntu 14.04 laptop controls LMS via Chromium. Meridian Explorer USB DAC to listen via Squeezelite on Vortexbox & other PCs as required. Spare Touch in loft. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PasTim's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=41642 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=101622 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
