Hmm... thanks, both. Seems like you make a good case for the Pi. Is it a physically neat and tidy solution?
I'd first have to overcome a couple of mental hurdles, one being that when I got my NAS (with LMS pre-installed) from Ripcaster, I recall spending many hours getting to grips with (but never fully understanding!) several plugins needed to create custom menus for my classical music library. This was back in the days when I felt more technologically inclined, and now it would be quite daunting if I had to figure out how I did it all, and set up a Pi effectively from scratch. Robert, thanks for the offer of set-up assistance - I'll bear you in mind. Another hurdle is that the 1TB NAS is a relatively "green" (low-power, low-noise, compact, one-box) solution for LMS and my music files (... but I wish the HDD would spin down when idle!) The thought of having to add, and power, a further box just for a later version of LMS is somewhat irksome. To date I've had no replies in the QNAP forum, so probably for now I will have a go at updating to 7.7.5 or 6 and see what transpires. philippe_44 wrote: > Re Tidal, I don't have it any more, so I can't say, but if they claim > 256 CBR (Constant Bit Rate), then it's 256, why would you expect it to > be 320?I was using Spotify, until support recently got pulled, and it was > 320k. TIDAL seem it bit coy about their bit rates: in the desktop app, my streaming options are either "Standard" or "High" (I have High selected). I believe the Touch automatically plays the best available stream, but with an apparent lack of additional info, and given that all the discussions I've read were about lossless, I was just hoping it would be equivalent to Spotify. Don't get me wrong - my local library is probably 99% CDs ripped to FLAC, and this is what I prefer to listen to. As I'm not streaming very often I can't justify paying £19.99/month for lossless. If I like an album on TIDAL that much, I will buy the CD and rip it. (I know they've brought out "Master", but there isn't the breadth of material yet, and it assumes you've got something which can play MQA.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ losinj's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16240 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=108135
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