Hello Michael, all, long time no see. I'm glad to discover projects like LMS 8 or that dizzying squeezeAMP thing. And also I broke out picoreplayer 6.0 yesterday, looks great and works great as always.
I was wondering if any thoughts would go towards making LMS more "container-native"? It is possible to spawn an entire system in one go: server, players (squeezelite), and dedicated network (All RPis in my case). I have a feeling it might be useful, although pCP and -I suppose- squeezeAMP simplify deployment greatly in their own way. In general, running LMS as a component feels a little contrary. The squeezeboxserver_safe thing is redundant with external means of ensuring health checking and restart, preferences are buried deep in the fs, logging to stdout would be more natural etc. Perhaps LMS could be componentized a bit so that it could support, e.g. a clustered front-end. I don't know if that make sense; only thing I know is that running without the web frontend makes the server use less RAM. I played only with radio streams, so did not went on to explore the distributed audio files situation; I feel it's feasible but I know something would happen to the DB if, say, half of the files go away at runtime or between runs. Image building is not optimal. With limited time to dedicate to the container, I ended up with a rather fat debian+LMS package image, and an "entrypoint" that summons "squeezeboxserver" directly. I visited the Alpine alley in hope of a quick weight gain and found no usable (or recent?) package. I then had the idea of creating a makefile set for buildroot but I backed off in a hurry (sorry for that.) Again, glad to see the community in great shape. 3 SB 3 Libratone Loop, Zipp Mini iPeng (iPhone + iPad) LMS 7.9 (linux) with plugins: CD Player, WaveInput, Triode's BBC iPlayer by bpa IRBlaster by Gwendesign (Felix) Server Power Control by Gordon Harris Smart Mix, Music Walk With Me, What Was That Tune? by Michael Herger PowerSave by Jason Holtzapple Song Info, Song Lyrics by Erland Isaksson AirPlay Bridge by philippe_44 WeatherTime by Martin Rehfeld Auto Dim Display, SaverSwitcher, ContextMenu by Peter Watkins. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ epoch1970's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16711 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=111515
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