> 3) Put server and player software on the Raspberry Pi. Feed with SSD > music library directly attached. > Pros - low power consumption, playback not dependent on wifi (although > Ipad remote control of music library still needed), 'samba' may allow me > to add new music over wifi to the Raspberry/ SSD (apparently).
Samba does allow file transfer its been doing for me for 15 years and for a few weeks on Picoreplayer it took around 10 minutes to set up. > > Cons - SSD storage still expensive. Does Raspberry USB connection have > enough oomph to power the SSD drive ? Still need to grapple with remote > access from time to time. Does Raspberry Pi 3 have USB 2 or 3 (does it > matter for speedy access of the SSD drive ?). Will still need to replace > my IMac at some point. I do not remember anyone mentioning an SSD, if they did they should be ignored, it would be completely pointless. Using a high cost, high speed, low storage capacity device where you want a low cost low speed high capacity device is nonsense. SSD's take FAR less power than a spinner but a spinner AND pi total is likely to be only 5-10 watts. A spinning HDD will be more than fast enough unless you have around 30 players playing FLAC's or high res files, you will have hit other problems before the HDD becomes the limit. I have used WD Elements 1Tb before. They can be had for £50 *Players:* SliMP3,Squeezebox3 x3,Receiver,SqueezePlayer,PiCorePlayer x3,Wandboard *Server:* LMS Version: 7.9.0 - 1475786002 on Centos 7 VM on ESXi 6 on Dell T320 *Plugins:* AutoRescan/BBCiPlayer/PowerSave/PowerSwitchIII/Squeezecloud *Remotes:* iPeng8/Orangesqueeze/PC/Jivelite *Music:* 383GB,1269 albums 17756 songs 4381 artists mostly FLACs *Want a webapp ?* See http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?104305-Webapp-for-LMS ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Jeff07971's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=49290 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=107002
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