I think your summary is excellent. I'm running 1 and 3a, and the Pi (Odroid) with Max2PLAY, and played with 2, not tried 4
On 1, once you made the mods (which are well documented) upgrading is fairly simple (just download and upgrade using SSOTS). You probably only need to upgrade the core LMS 3 or 4 times a year. The downside of (1) (see my other post just now), is that QTS might one day be incompatible with LMS, just as I suspect MUSICIP has become. On 2, early days, and you might struggle if the container does not have what you want (bolted on to the side of LMS) 3 works, and I will probably end up going back to that because I just happen to have a VM, and it is stable. It hardly takes any resource, and we use it for Windows apps that we know and love. 4 - I have not tried this, but it might suffer the same downstream issues as 1 re compatibility. I also have tried various RPi / Odroid implementations, including sticking a 512GB SSD on the side and having it self contained. For me, the same issue of no MUSICIP (albeit that has maybe been partially addressed now). I run one of these in the office, and (frankly) much as I hate to admit it, it just works like an appliance, Music serving is all it does, and it does it well. How many players? don't know the capacity of a Pi. Also, indexing music might be heavy if you have 100k tracks - I have 35k and the Pi manages ok in about 20 mins for a full rebuild (albeit slower than the NAS) If I was starting from scratch, I'd probably run in a Windows VM because of MUSICIP. If you don't want MIP, I'd run it in a Pi either using the NAS storage, or USB solid state storage . The advantage of running on the Pi with local storage is it truly is dedicated, so no interruptions to music when you tinker with the NAS, and no way for the NAS to be compromised with music stuff. But having shelled out for a NAS that doubles as a music server, you probably don't want to hear that! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ yeomanspc's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=249 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=108417 _______________________________________________ Squeezecenter mailing list Squeezecenter@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/squeezecenter
