losinj wrote: > 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. > > 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. *I was also wondering if the fact that > my version of LMS is old meant the bit rate may not be reported > correctly.* > > 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.)
My LMS server is a model 3 Raspberry Pi housed in a small unobtrusive black case, which sits out of the way (actually on top of the NAS), with a power cable, and an ethernet cable connecting it to the router. I don't think it draws much power, and I leave it running 24:7. The NAS and the Pi both sit in a cubby hole in an upstairs room. I'm running LMS 7.9.1, and I've installed the Spotty plugin for Spotify. Like you, I predominantly listen to flac rips from CD, but I do check things out on Spotify before purchase. (But you do need a Premium account). It does occur to me that if your current LMS running on the NAS still works well, you might be better to keep that in reserve so you can go back to it if you don't like the Raspberry Pi method. Robert *Home: *Raspberry Pi 3/piCoreplayer/LMS7.9 with files on QNAP TS-239 Touch > DacMagic 100 > Naim Audio Nait 3 > Mission 752 (plus Rega Planar 3 and Naim CD3) PiCorePlayer(Pi2) with touchscreen and IQAudIO DAC+>Sennheisers 2 x Squeezebox Radios, 1 X Squeezebox 3 (retired) *Office:* LMS7.9 running on WiFi MyPassport drive > piCorePlayer(PiB)/HiFiBerryDAC > Amptastic Amplifier SqueezePad, iPeng as controllers 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=108135
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