Goodsounds wrote: > Oh boy, thanks guys. I guess I gave an unintended but clear > demonstration of my ineptness. I didn't understand what was said. This > second round of responses together with the first give me a much clearer > view. > > Another dumb question then, so I can better understand Philippe's > comment about airplay bridge. > > The active equipment I have is two Classic 3s, a Touch, and a Boom. > (It's the Boom that seems to be dying and I'm thrilled to learn of the > Audio Pro C5. Thank you!) > > I've stayed with Squeezebox Server version 7.6.1 just because it works > fine and I'm not a tinkerer. If I switch to LMS to allow me to use the > airplay bridge plug-in and maybe the Chromecast one too, will the > functionality and appearance, and compatibility with Android and Apple > apps I use to control the players, continue and be similar? > > Thanks again. Nothing like having experts available to help the feeble > minded.
I've never tested with 7.6.x and I've set the min required version to be 7.7.x, unfortunately. Maybe it will work if I change the requirement, maybe not, that I really don't know. On the positive side, my bridges act such as the upnp, chromecast or airplay players appear as if they were real SB devices. So all the apps you use to interact with LMS remain the same, you just happen to have new players, that's all. The limit for upnp and chromecast is that gapless, synchronization, fade in/out/cross does not work. None of these limits exist with AirPlay, but the audio is resampled to be 44.1/16 - which is not a problem as far as I'm concerned. UPnP is the most difficult to configure, Chromecast should work out of the box as well as 90% of AirPlay devices. You just need to make sure that your firewall is not blocking the communication. On a different note, your Boom is likely fixable. Jo here offer a good service doing that. In any case, don't throw it away, a lot of people would be happy to buy & fix it if one day you don't want it anymore LMS 7.7, 7.8 and 7.9 - 5xRadio, 3xBoom, 4xDuet, 1xTouch, 1 SB2. Sonos PLAY:3, PLAY:5, Marantz NR1603, JBL OnBeat, XBoxOne, XBMC, Foobar2000, ShairPortW, JRiver 21, 2xChromecast Audio, Chromecast v1 and v2, , Pi B3, B2, Pi B+, 2xPi A+, Odroid-C1, Odroid-C2, Cubie2, Yamaha WX-010, AppleTV 4, Airport Express ------------------------------------------------------------------------ philippe_44's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17261 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=107925 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
