d6jg wrote: 
> Robert, 
> I think I put you in to this route but for
> the benefit of others what is your real world experience of the Pi & NAS
> combo? You have been using it for a few months now haven't you? 
> We keep seeing posts about Spotify issues on various NAS systems and for
> me this is the solution these days as there are just too many
> imponderables when running LMS on a NAS.

I switched from running LMS on the QNAP NAS a couple of months ago,
after several years using LMS running very smoothly on the NAS. The
reason was that LMS seemed to have become a little unstable, and that
Spotify didn't work reliably - appeared to play tracks, but no sound.

I have run piCoreplayer/LMS on a version 1B Raspberry Pi for a couple of
months. It's behaved flawlessly. I have just (yesterday evening)
replaced it with a version 3 Raspberry Pi, as the 1B seemed a little
slow to respond on the LMS web interface. First impressions are that the
LMS web interface is a bit more responsive.

It's not clear why my QNAP became less reliable, I assume
incompatibilities between software packages.

When I recently suffered a power cut, the Pi-based LMS lost access to
the music files: this was because it booted in 10 seconds or so, before
the QNAP was fully running (so the QNAP filesystem couldn't be mounted)
- solution was simply to reboot the Pi.

Very happy with the set up. I have also tried using a powered USB hard
drive, but I found it less satisfactory than the ethernet connected
NAS.

Also very happy with LMS installed on a 2Tb Western Digital wireless
MyPassport drive, which seems a robust portable solution (there's a
thread elsewhere on this) - it is what I use in my office.

Robert



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