I'd like to add that whilst LMS with Custom Scan, Custom Browse, Multi-Library and Dynamic Playlists are not easy to set up, once done they provide facilities that no other music servers I am aware of can match. I probably spent weeks, on and off, getting a first version set up to my satisfaction, and have tinkered on and off since then to make them even better. Some of this has required rethinking my music tagging schemes, which really is non-trivial. It's not for the faint-hearted, and if you know little about software and/or databases, probably best not attempted.
It's hard not to vent one's frustration on the forum at times, but one just has to try and put oneself in the other readers' shoes to realise it's not very helpful. The problems I have got into have all been down to my own fudged attempts to be clever without fully understanding what I'm doing. I have found people on this forum enormously helpful, tolerant and patient, and all for free. A lack of response to one's mutterings often just means people aren't reading the threads. Why should they if all is well? I only tend to dive in when I have a problem or am, in my limited fashion, trying something new that I think might be interesting. Logitech were clearly in the hardware business, and I don't think they realised what they had here. With some effort they could have integrated these plugins into the base system, sorted out the interfaces, and got a really good software package to offer way ahead of anything else. There may not be a great deal of money in it but there is some, witness people paying licenses for plugins. Further, as I have now discovered, there is life for this software even without Logitech hardware, as you may find if you read other posts about supporting UPnP devices. That's still in Alpha/Beta testing, but it's definitely a flyer if you don't need multi-room synchronisation. LMS 7.9 on VortexBox Midi, Xubuntu 14.04, FLACs 16->24 bit, 44.1->192kbps. LMS & Squeeze2upnp (Beta - derived from squeezelite) to Musical Fidelity M1 CLiC and Marantz CR603 UPnP renderers. Squeezelite to PC sound. Minimserver (server) and upplay (control point) to same amps & to upmpdcli/mpd PC renderers. Meridian USB Explorer DAC from PCs to speakers/headphones. Wireless Xubuntu 14.04 laptop controls LMS/upplay via Firefox. Have a Touch with EDO, and a spare, but don't use. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PasTim's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=41642 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=102563 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
