Having had one of my original squeezeboxes (a Receiver) finally die on me, I've decided it's time to refresh my entire squeezebox setup.
As I have a bunch of Pis hanging around, the Receiver was quickly replaced by a Pi2 running pCP - works beautifully. However my current LMS is running in a jail under FreeBSD - it was a pain to get it running in the first place, and I haven't dared touch it in 6 (!) years. So I'd like to replace this with a Pi4 4GB. If I go with one of the standard Pi distros, is there any advantage to running 64 bit (Ubuntu) over the standard 32 bit Raspberry Pi OS images ? Alternatively there are the special purpose distros. Scanning the forums, I see a lot of people seem to be running Max2Play, but I'm not sure why ... what are the benefits (and any drawbacks) of running Max2Play over a standard distro ? Finally, there's pCP. I see that can also run LMS, and whilst the idea of running from RAM rather than the SD card is appealing, I wonder how well this works with the music library on a slowish old fileserver ? Can you put the database cache local to the Pi, either on the SD card, a USB drive, or even cached in RAM (on a 4GB Pi) ? This is for a music collection with roughly 15000 tracks. Finally (I promise !) any issues re: CIFS vs NFS for sharing the music library with the Pi ? [Sorry, lots of questions here. The beauty of squeezeboxes is that they work so well most of the time that I've never needed to keep up with the community. Just trying to rapidly catch back up with the state of the art] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ khoadley's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=37178 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=112977 _______________________________________________ Squeezecenter mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/squeezecenter
