ctbarker32 wrote:
> I would like to agree with the OP. The LMS web interface is usable but
> hopelessly outdated. I use Plex and LMS. I have been using LMS for more
> than 10 years and have three servers running both for safety and
> redundancy.
>
> I recently tried to get a fellow audiophile to use LMS and Picoreplayer
> and he was very turned off by the outdated LMS interface and perceived
> complexity in setting up LMS. I mentioned Ipeng, etc. but he was already
> fed up. He much prefers the MPD based players using RPi and really likes
> RUNE Audio (not Roon) which is by default able to connect directly to
> his SMB (Samba) based NAS share. So with RUNE Audio he downloads the
> image and burns to a microSD and plugs it into his RPi and he points it
> towards his SMB NAS share and he is done. LMS can't compete with this
> scenario! He says it can scan 1 tb of music in 5 minutes which if true
> is much faster than LMS. It take LMS close to an hour to scan my 2.5 tb
> music collection.
>
> I am very active using Picoreplayer project as well as my existing Touch
> and SB3 players but I am very concerned for the fate of LMS if no way
> can be found to bring it's technology and interface up to modern
> standards?
>
> -CB
I tried Rune (also Volumio), but found the versatility of LMS far
superior for my needs (though I liked the web interface). I didn't find
Rune easy to connect to Spotify, nor did I find connecting to local hard
drives or my NAS particularly straightforward. I don't spend a lot of
time setting up LMS, since I do it so infrequently, and scans take about
6 minutes for over 25,000 tracks (longer if I clear the database and
rescan everything, but I don't do that often).
I really should give a more recent version of Rune a whirl.
Robert
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