ctbarker32 wrote: > I would like to agree with the OP. The LMS web interface is usable but > hopelessly outdated. I use Plex and LMS. I have been using LMS for more > than 10 years and have three servers running both for safety and > redundancy. > > I recently tried to get a fellow audiophile to use LMS and Picoreplayer > and he was very turned off by the outdated LMS interface and perceived > complexity in setting up LMS. I mentioned Ipeng, etc. but he was already > fed up. He much prefers the MPD based players using RPi and really likes > RUNE Audio (not Roon) which is by default able to connect directly to > his SMB (Samba) based NAS share. So with RUNE Audio he downloads the > image and burns to a microSD and plugs it into his RPi and he points it > towards his SMB NAS share and he is done. LMS can't compete with this > scenario! He says it can scan 1 tb of music in 5 minutes which if true > is much faster than LMS. It take LMS close to an hour to scan my 2.5 tb > music collection. > > I am very active using Picoreplayer project as well as my existing Touch > and SB3 players but I am very concerned for the fate of LMS if no way > can be found to bring it's technology and interface up to modern > standards? > > -CB
I tried Rune (also Volumio), but found the versatility of LMS far superior for my needs (though I liked the web interface). I didn't find Rune easy to connect to Spotify, nor did I find connecting to local hard drives or my NAS particularly straightforward. I don't spend a lot of time setting up LMS, since I do it so infrequently, and scans take about 6 minutes for over 25,000 tracks (longer if I clear the database and rescan everything, but I don't do that often). I really should give a more recent version of Rune a whirl. Robert *Home: *Raspberry Pi 3/piCoreplayer/LMS7.9 with files on QNAP TS-239 Touch > DacMagic 100 > Naim Audio Nait 3 > Mission 752 (plus Rega Planar 3 and Naim CD3) PiCorePlayer(Pi2) with touchscreen and IQAudIO DAC+>Sennheisers 2 x Squeezebox Radios, 1 X Squeezebox 3 (retired) *Office:* LMS7.9 running on WiFi MyPassport drive > piCorePlayer(PiB)/HiFiBerryDAC > Amptastic Amplifier SqueezePad, iPeng as controllers last.fm/user/GrumpyBob ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Grumpy Bob's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=41857 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=103565 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
