Hello all. I visit here very infrequently because for over a decade now LMS plus a single player that I use to stream locally stored FLAC rips of my CDs has worked perfectly for me with no issues at all, all now controlled by the excellent iPeng. The actual hardware might have changed over the years, it's currently all (except iPeng) on a Raspberry Pi including the player (SqueezeLite) with my FLAC files stored on an external USB drive plugged into one of the Pi's USB ports and it all just works.
So why am I here? Well, I've decided to dip my toe into the 21st century and try a streaming service and now I'm a bit confused and scared of breaking something in my currently perfect setup. Some new speakers that I'm having delivered later this week have an offer of a 6 month Tidal trial so Tidal is the service I want to get up and running. I just looked at the web interface for my LMS and I see in Settings/Plugins that the Tidal plugin is active but whereas something like the "RSS News Ticker" plugin has a "Settings" link next to it the Tidal plugin doesn't. Some more digging now leads me to believe that the Tidal functionality is enabled via mysqueezebox.com which is something that I've never used. Also, in trying to understand what mysqueezebox.com is I see a few things which, unless I'm reading them wrong, make me think that if I enable it that will now become the control point and I will loose the ability to stream my locally stored FLAC content. So where do I go from here? Have I got this all wrong? I'm hoping to get a setup where I can both stream my local ~700 CD collection plus also have access to stuff I don't physically own on CD via Tidal. Is this possible and if yes then how do I do that? (I mean how do I do it in the LMS world of course, Roon would be an option but at not-insignificant cost and also needing to move the server away from my Pi since Roon won't run on that so I really would prefer to find a way to stay in the LMS universe to do what I want.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JulianL's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1088 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=110712 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
