But you don't need ickStream just to get Tidal. It's available from MySB without any additional requirement.
> Am 12.12.2016 um 17:51 schrieb Vegz78 > <[email protected]>: > > > bpa wrote: >> Didn't Pippin suggest an applet not a plugin ? if it is a true Applet >> then not the same as a plugin. > > Nope, on the contrary. > > I found the Ickstream applet and wondered if and how it could be > installed on the Squeezebox Touch. On that subject Pippin was kind > enough to respond and tell med that the applet would replace the Squeeze > firmware on the Touch instead of augmenting it, and that it was only > developed as an experiment for something else, required an Ickstream > controller and wasn't really the focus right now. > > Further he noted about the applet: > "..the applet does something else, it's a software that runs only on the > Touch and plays locally there, it can't be controlled with e.g. iPeng. > But in the case of the ickStream applet it could be controlled with an > ickStream controller, but what you can not do that way is control all > the other Squeezebox functionality on the Touch. It was really meant to > offer a compatibility path to a different system." > > > Then he suggested that I might try to install the Ickstream plugin on > the Squeezebox server(TinySC) embedded in the Squeezebox Touch, which > might give med the functionality I was looking for(Ickstream > functionality without turning on my PC server with LMS and my whole > music library and without putting load, perpetuate HDD activity and > hight temperature on my Mybook Live NAS): > "Now... LMS can run on the Touch as well as you know and although it > lacks an installer you can technically (if done manually) also install > plugins there and this might actually even work with the ickStream > plugin (haven't tried it)." > > > This I tried, but failed. And when I asked for help on this thread, > Michael, was kind enough to answer and inform me about the scarce memory > resources on the Squeezebox Touch, that installing the Ickstream plugin > there probably wouldn't work, and that installing LMS on a Rasberry PI > probably was a better idea to acheive the functionality I'm looking > for. > > > Now, for the time being, LMS is running with the Ickstream plugin on my > Mybook Live NAS, which is really driving me nuts with the etarnally > spinning disks, its scary high operating temperatures and my fear of > disk crash and data loss. > > > Since I today mostly listen to streamed online music and it's soon > Christmas, I'm seriously contemplating a ready made Rasberry Pi solution > with a cabinet and a decent soundcard... > > > In the meantime, if anybody against all odds has any luck and could > share their experience in installing Ickstream as a working plugin on > the Squeezebox Touch TinySC or installing LMS with the Ickstream plugin > on a WD Mybook Live NAS while managing to get the disks to spin down on > inactivity, I'd be happy to hear about it! > > Have a nice day! > > > Vegard > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Vegz78's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=32897 > View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=77474 > > _______________________________________________ > plugins mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
