verycd wrote: 
> Thank you everyone for the help. Since https is not support, guess there
> is no way to achieve the origial purpose of the device (for me), which
> is to play internet radio stations without keeping a computer on. What a
> pity.  Indeed, for my use, a retired phone on a stand probably serves
> better because it will play all stations.

you have been given good advice from the senior "go to" :) members here,
but perhaps I can fill a couple gaps. In my mind "mysqueezebox.com" was
developed for "out of the box" operation of the sb devices. However, the
functionality is dwarfed by LMS, even early on. When logitech dropped
the line, mysqueezebox development was dropped, while it remains alive
(as was mentioned) thanks to logitech for legacy functionality. So when
stations started migrating to https, mysqueezebox got less and less
useful. mysqueezebox has other deficiencies that have developed over
time.

I understand your "play music with the computer off", as I used to run
LMS on a windows machine, and every time I turned the computer off, I
said "hey! what happened to the music??!!" :)

As @slarti mentioned, using a raspberry pi as an "always on", low cost
(<$50USD), low power server gives you what you are looking for including
ALOT more. I chose to go the picoreplayer route, which is popular here,
but there are others.

Your touch is still a nice piece of kit, throw $50 at it for a cute
litte rpi server, and if you choose to, add storage (local, network,
etc) to add your library. You won't regret it. Think of it as an "add
on" for your touch to play https if you like.

There are alot of "how to" threads here we can point you to...

Jim


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