It seems to me to be time to share my thoughts on just how good LMS is.
My own music library is mainly classical. With the help of Custom Browse, Custom Scan and Dynamic Playlist plugins I can find and play multi-movement classical Works in almost any way I can think of. Thanks to Erland I can have menus that, for instance, allow me to pick a recording of a particular Work by a specific Conductor in one year (I have several recordings by the same people, in different years, of particular Works). I can invent my own type of Artist, called a Work Artist that is an artist common to all Movements in a Work, have a proper sort form of that tag, and select Works performed by that person (or by an Orchestra, Choir, etc.). I can assign ratings to Works and Movements and select Movements and/or Works within ranges of rating. I currently use 22 different such specialised classical menus. Using Multi Library I can arrange to use other types of menu for Pop, Speech and other types of track. I continue to enhance and improve the menus I use for all of this, probably doing things no one else has ever wanted to do its all down to my imagination and ability with sql. Thanks to Erland again I can play random Works with different ratings, random Movements by a selected Conductor, and many other random variations. Thanks to Triode and bpa I can stream live and recent BBC (and sometimes other) radio programs round the house. If I want to stream from one of several major sources such as Spotify, Deezer, Tidal or Qobuz I can do that too. With Squeezelite, thanks to Triode and Ralphy, I can play music on my desktop or laptop with a USB DAC, and if and when I venture into Raspberry Pi land I could use that to replace my Logitech Touches. If I had a multi-speaker setup I could download DSDs and play those too. And not only all that, thanks to Philippe44 I can play my music on non-LMS devices that support UPnP, or via Chromecast. Not being an i-person I dont use Airplay, but if I was, I could. Thanks to Gordon Harris I can control LMS with Server Power Control, letting me restart it from the web GUI, shut it down overnight after it finishes rescanning, reboot the server, perform other relevant commands on my headless server, and so on. I can control all of this from any desktop or laptop, or using my android mobile using one of several different apps (hate that word ) and can play the music on the mobile as well. I can even do this via secure login when away from home and stream in lower-quality. And best of all, Michael holds it all together, adding useful features (eg. Additional Browse Modes and better searches) and moving LMS forward as fast as needs be with changes to the underlying platform software. Plus the community on this forum is always there to help me when I get lost or confused. I have, to date, found no other tool that can get anywhere close to the flexibility LMS affords me. Has anyone? :) LMS 7.9.1 on VortexBox Midi box, Xubuntu 17.10, FLACs 16->24 bit, 44.1->192kbps. Touch & EDO. 2nd Touch standard. LMS plugin UPnP/DLNA Bridge to MF M1 CLiC (to A308CR amp & ESLs) & Marantz CR603 UPnP renderers. Alternatively Minimserver & Upplay to same & to upmpdcli/mpd PC renderers. Squeezelite to Meridian USB Explorer DAC to PC speakers/headphones. Wireless Xubuntu 17.10 laptop firefox/upplay or Android 'phone with Squeeze-Commander/BubbleUPnP controls LMS/Minimserver. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PasTim's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=41642 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=108360
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