flyfishing wrote: > Newbie here. Please be gentle. > > The LMS family of media streaming was suggested to me by someone with > years of experience with it. However, he is unable to help. There have > been so many new or discontinued products in this arena and there is so > much "jargon" that I can't seem to get out of a circular loop. > > My experience is with Windows, (and before that DOS from V2 to V6). No > experience with 'nix variants except for some highly scripted and > overlayed products such as routers or firewalls. > > I ran the LMS installer on Windows 10 and followed up with soft-squeeze > which would not connect. The instructions to edit some variables did > not seem to apply to Windows 10 as I could not find the referenced files > in Users\user-name\etc. Then I saw this in the help: > > > SoftSqueeze emulates Squeezebox and Transporter on Windows, Mac OSX and > Unix Computers. > > Since Server 7.4 SoftSqueeze is replaced by SqueezePlay > > Meanwhile SqueezePlay isn't shipped the the standard installation > anymore. > > There are some Squeeze Software Emulations out there eg. the ones that > Ralph Irving maintains. > > Name: Description: Link to our Forum: > Jivelite Graphical Frontend without Playerfunctionality. Link > Squeezelite Commandline Player without Frontend. Link > SqueezePlay Graphical Frontend with Playerfunctionality. Windows > > > which seems to say that soft-squeeze will not work with the current > version download. > > Is there anywhere I can go to find a step by step to make LMS work with > just the standard speakers on the pc it is installed on as a first step? > Then further instructions on how to make it work over the network to > speakers on other systems, and finally to make it work on such as Yamaha > Music-cast. > > Thanks for any assistance.
As you're using Win 10, I'd go for Squeezellite-X. https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/p/squeezelite-x/9pbhmtnp9037?activetab=pivot:overviewtab This is a player and controller, will control all your future Squeezebox players. :):cool: *Server - LMS 8.3.0 *Pi4B 4GB/Argon one case/pCP 8.0.0 - 75K library, playlists & LMS cache on SSD (ntfs) *Study -* Pi4/pCP 8.0.0/Topping E30 DAC/Ruark MR1 Mk2 *Lounge* - Pi2/pCP 8.0.0 > HiFiBerry DIGI+ > AudioEngine DAC1 > AVI DM5 *Dining Room* - Pi3B/pCP/Bluetooth/Echo Show 8 *Garage* - DAC32 > Edifier speakers *Spares* - 2xTouch, 1xSB Radio. 1xSB3, 6xRPi ------------------------------------------------------------------------ kidstypike's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10436 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=115467 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
