PasTim wrote: > A use case. Some of this is expressed in terms of the solution, for > instance I have no better way to describe an ideal controller than to > say 'just like LMS'. I don't want to throw away amplifiers or servers > that I have that do an excellent job as it is. Some of the components > are, therefore, part of my ideal system. > > I want: > > 1) To use a browser on a wireless laptop or tablet to play music in my > lounge, and sometimes in one other room. > 2) The user interface needs to be as flexible as LMS is now, which means > I can customise menus to play things like 'Works By Composer' and select > a performance by a particular Artist, or 'Random Works', or 'Random > Movements', or 'Albums by Conductor', and so on.... I have no need for > anything better than that which LMS provides, so I want to keep it as it > is. > 3) This user interface includes the ability to select a 'player' which > in this case would be the streaming software (i.e. just like > squeezelite, especially in its 'local player' guise). > 4) The music is in flacs, up to 24/192 quality, on a linux server. > 5) My amplifiers are connected to my wired home network. > 6) I want to select the input to the amplifier to be the music source > and stream (i.e. the streamer on the server), no more than that, and > nothing need be displayed on it for each track. It's just an input, > like a tuner, LP player (yes, I still have more than one!) or whatever. > > 7) I have no need for additional hardware boxes, indeed I have a > positive aversion to them. There is no need for them. They perform no > useful function that I can detect. > 8) I have no need for multi-room sync. > 9) The KISS principle applies (Keep It Simple, Stupid). I just want to > play music as simply and reliably as possible. Thus removing the Touch > from my current set-up should make the solution better. > > So, since both amplifiers already support streamed music over the wired > network using UpnP, I want to use something like squeezelite to stream > directly to them, rather than to an audio device on my server.
You kind of painted yourself into a corner here. You have complicated requirements, particularly point 2. I see 3/4 options: 1) If you let 2 go I would suggest something like plex server on linux. I think it has DLNA features but it doesn't have the complicated browse menus. I have it but don't use DLNA or the music features so not sure how well it works. You possibly need to let go 4 as well. This also means you won't be using LMS. https://plex.tv/ (that's 3 requirements down). 2) Use LMS and somehow get it converted to the way you want. Hit's all your points but not 9. I think it will be tricky to set up and difficult to work with. 3) LMS has some upnp functionality. But I have no idea how it works. I think it acts more as a client playing other sources than anything else. Check under settings/advanced/network. It also acts as a server so you should be able to play stuff from your amp already. But it doesn't show up as a player AFAIK. 4) Set up one little box (which you have already in the form of an SB). Get one of the boards for which images exist on this forum. Write that image and you are set to go. Hit's all your points except 7. And most of these are so small you can hide them anyway. Louis 'Last.fm' (http://www.last.fm/user/lrossouw) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ lrossouw's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3416 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=101622 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
