Well the OP stated he's using 2 players and mySB.com for internet music services. This is certainly a low-end scenario. I stand by my statement; anything including a smartwatch that is less than 5 years old and has 256 RAM *minimum* will be fine. --Just don't get a Geode today, it won't even be cost-effective :)
BTW, the performance of LMS does not scale linearly, IMHO. Besides this sort of small machines, I have experience w/ LMS installed in VMs (one 2GHz proc, 1GB RAM) and before that in the server host itself (2x2GHz dual core, 36GB RAM, 2xGigabit trunk link.) All with the same DB -about 30k songs-, accessed locally of via NFS. I consistently use LMS with plugins and 4 players or so (my sig gives an idea.) There is a large step in performance between the Geode and a VM. But I don't remember noticing any gain running on the server host itself. AFAIK LMS runs a single thread, so multiplying cores in unnecessary; network bandwidth equalizes compute throughput. Of course those running brutefir or plenty of up- or downsampling processes might need plenty of CPU cores and RAM. But I would call that high-end. 4 SB 3 iPeng (iPhone + iPad) SqueezeLite Squeezebox Server 7.8.1 (Debian 7.5) with plugins: CD Player, WaveInput by bpa IRBlaster by Gwendesign (Felix) Server Power Control by Gordon Harris Smart Mix by Michael Herger PowerSave by Jason Holtzapple Song Info, Song Lyrics by Erland Isaksson WeatherTime by Martin Rehfeld ShairTunes by StuartUSA Local Player, BBC iPlayer, SwitchPlayer by Triode Auto Dim Display, SaverSwitcher, ContextMenu by Peter Watkins. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ epoch1970's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16711 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=103641
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