I believe that the Squeezebox server coupled to a Raspberry Pi as a player provides the best value in high end audio and the community should be recommended for this colabrative approach that companies cannot seem to provide.
I have a Excito/Bubba NAS which runs the server. It is very cheap to run compared with a traditional PC and also serves as a POP server and general server. I have a subscription to Deezer and also some 8000 tracks of stored music. I also use the system to listen to internet radio - my favorite being Radio Paradise and BBC iPlayer to listen to the 6:30 comedy half hour on radio 4 when I get home in an evening. I like the way it catalogues the music and also using the excellent multi-library plug-in allows my wife to choose only from her music. She does need cover art though which is causing me a slight problem at the moment. The players are a Raspberry B+ with HiFi Berry DAC (picoreplayer) playing into a valve amplifier with mission floor standing speakers. The quality of the DAC is outstanding especially with FLAC music which for its price is comparable to DACs priced in the hundreds to thousands of £. I have squeezelite running on a small factor Ubuntu pc which is in the kitchen. I use squeezepad on the Ipad to control it all - very user friendly. So it all connects very well together. The only real expense being the amp ( around £2000 and the speakers around £1000). I love listening to music and this satisfies it very well. The sync option for multi-rooms is brilliant for a large gathering. I have provided a raspberry pi + hiberry DAC to each of the kids. They don't store music but stream from Spotify ( the modern way). They have mid range amps and speakers. About £500 for each bought secondhand - one a solid state and the other Fatman hybrid. I have installed SqueezePlug on the raspberrys which provides the server and player on the raspberry - they both use Spotify. The ability to use Spotify playlists is a boom for them and they control it all from their iphones. One of the kids girlfriend is Russian and loves the ability to listen to Russian radio stations. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ AndyBeevers's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=58936 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=102312
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