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 Touch > DacMagic 100 > Naim Audio Nait 3 > Mission 752 (plus Rega Planar 3 and Naim CD3) 2 x Squeezebox Radios, 1 X Squeezebox 3 SqueezePad, iPeng, Squeezeplay, piCorePlayer(PiB)>DACMagic 100, PiCorePlayer(Pi2)>IQAudIO DAC+>Sennheisers, (piCorePlayer(PiB)>HiFiBerryDAC in reserve) QNAP TS-239, LMS 7.9 last.fm/user/GrumpyBob ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Grumpy Bob's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=41857 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=105927 _______________________________________________ Squeezecenter mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/squeezecenter
