As others have replied, Raspberry Pi is a good option, you can either install from scratch as it were with Raspian/Debian and download and install all the necessary packages manually or use pre-prepared packages from Max2Play or PiCorePlayer, both of these are easy to get up and running and well supported by their authoring teams.
For QNAP NAS's Digimaster's (forum user) excellent work on his QLogitechMediaServer QPKG has breathed a new lease of life into easily running LMS on that platform, but only working on Intel x86 and x86_64 processors at the moment, he's hoping to expand that to Arm processors soon, There's threads here and on the QNAP Community forum about his QPKG. I currently use an RPI 2B with Max2Play and it's very stable and not too bad for speed, local music files are stored on a QNAP. I'm also testing QLogitechMediaServer and I have to say it's quick, although perhaps it should be it's running on a 4 core 2Ghz Intel Celeron processor with 16Mb of RAM available. Some nice choices out there at the moment - RPi, QNAP and Synology - times are good! To try and answer some of your other questions... I use Mediamonkey, MP3Tag and MP3Gain to maintain my library of music, a master copy is kept on my PC and then it is copied up to the NAS. Of course these days I'm only adding the odd album, so I prep that by checking tags, album art and applying track gain on the PC, then I copy the folder for that album up to the NAS, pretty standard file structure of Music/Artist/Album. Updates to LMS - never run LMS on a PC or Synology so not sure exactly what mechanisms for updates they utilise, On a Pi, I think if using raspbian/debian on a manual install you can just use wget to download and install the latest package, I think it's the same for PiCorePlayer (details on the help pages at picoreplayer.org) Max2play offer an upgrade/install LMS, with a drop down to specify which version, from their Web based management screen plus the ability to specify a downloaded file (so you can download the latest version for Debian from the Squeeze downloads page and then tell Max2Play to upgrade using that file). QLogitechMediaServer, I think downloads and updates to the latest version everytime it starts, you can change that behaviour though in the config files. Regards Kev ------------------------------------------------------------------------ KeBul's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=32883 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=109681 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
