dafiend wrote: > Isn't UPnP a HUGE step back? What about replaygain, gapless playback, > support for wide variety of formats, tight synchronization of devices > etc. > I never use replaygain since I find the effect very artificial (I have never understood why people use it). Playing using the tools I am using is gapless since it is a continuous stream from squeezlite (which is gapless), not a separate series of tracks. The renderer knows nothing about the tracks. All my tracks are flacs, and anyway LMS and squeezelite manage transformations perfectly well. And finally, I don't synchronise devices in separate rooms - I sit down to listen to music.
I just find all the extra hardware, software and cables to be extra sources of problems (and maintenance), preferring to pipe digitally from the server to the end DAC with only ethernet (and associated switches) in the way. We are all different :-) 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
