sachadog wrote: > Good Morning, > > My Squeezebox Touch is, unfortunately, reaching the end of its lifespan. > It's been my main source of streamed music for many years now, from my > own music library, but the rear plug section is breaking down, requiring > frequent wipes with isopropyl alcohol to remove the stickiness and it > has a tendency to turn on and off at will. Obviously a componant is > beginning to breakdown. > > I have now purchased a third party player to continue using LMS via the > UPnP bridge. I have been using this plugin for a while, on several > internet connected radios etc., but I needed to have a replacement for > the Touch. > > On the Touch, for example, there are settings in the audio section for > crossfade, fade in, fade out and so on, plus various other settings. > > Is there a way of getting these settings to work on third party players? > Obviously I would prefer to keep using the Touch and my other players, > but I have to face facts, they are all "old" now and are prone to going > wrong. > > The manufacturer of the new player, indicates that the player will work > with a server, (in fact it lists two servers, but not LMS) but that it > relies on the settings, in the server, to vary it's basic playing > format. > > The UPnP bridge is a brilliant plugin and it would be advantageous if > settings found on, for instance the Touch, could be replicated by a > third party player. > > I use Muso as a "front-end" for playing purposes. Within that program, > there is a setting called "Magic Wand" which allows random music play, > from the library. The Squeezebox Touch audio setting allows for > crossfade between tracks, giving continuous music, but on third party > players only basic replay is available. > > Any advice would be welcome, as to whether it is possible for LMS > settings to be used in a third party player.
jasc wrote: > Hi, > > if I were you (and if I understand what you are aiming for, to use LMS > and UPnP Bridge to serve music to another system), then I would strongly > consider replacing your SB Touch with a Raspberry Pi based > piCorePlayer: > > https://picoreplayer.org/ > > https://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?113512-ANNOUNCE-piCorePlayer-7-0-0 > > Regards, > jasc I mostly agree that piCore (or SqueezeAMP) is closer to a "real SB", there is only so much I can do with the UPnP plugin. Now, the UPnP plugin in "flow" mode gives you replay gain, crossfade and all LMS 8.1.x on Odroid-C4 - *SqueezeAMP!*, 5xRadio, 5xBoom, 2xDuet, 1xTouch, 1xSB3. Sonos PLAY:3, PLAY:5, Marantz NR1603, Foobar2000, ShairPortW, 2xChromecast Audio, Chromecast v1 and v2, Squeezelite on Pi, Yamaha WX-010, AppleTV 4, Airport Express, GGMM E5, RivaArena 1 & 3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ philippe_44's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17261 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=113924 _______________________________________________ Squeezecenter mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/squeezecenter
