To follow-on from my earlier message and the feedback suggestions received regarding Raspberry pi as a platform, with piCorePlayer LMS.
My ReadyNAS died shortly after my earlier e-mails, and for a while I was running on LMS on my laptop, but that was not very satisfactory from a general family usability perspective. Many thanks for the suggestion to look at the Raspberry pi & piCorePlayer / LMS. I have recently made the transition to a Raspberry pi. A key note for other Raspberry pi newbies - my new pi 4 came with instructions on how to set everything up - starting with NOOBS (New Out Of Box System) loader, setting up Raspian, etc. and then trying to figure out how to get piCorePlayer & LMS to to install. After many hours of reading & re-reading the various documentation I realized that I need not have wasted my time on all the Rasbian stuff, and instead could have gone directly to loading piCorePlayer onto the memory card. It should really be explained more clearly to new pi users that the whole Raspbian thing is an unnecessary detour ... In any case, I have now got my music library loaded on a 500 GB USB flash drive inserted into the pi, and this is working well. The Raspberry runs sufficiently cool that the cooling fan never turns on, and the device is amazingly fast to scan & index my library, compared to the NetGear/ReadyNAS. As a dedicated standalone device - at probably 1/20th the size of my old 4-drive NetGear device - we gained a robust & reliable and high-performing system. I have two open items to close - appreciate further feedback: - I have a 1TB memory card and would like to partition this to load my music library on the memory card, so that I don't have an external USB stick poking out of the raspberry, vulnerable to being bumped, etc. - I still maintain my master library on my laptop. I tried to set up SAMBA on the pi / piCorePlayer, so that I can directly propagate/sync my library updates directly to the pi (I used Allway Sync with the NetGear/ReadyNAS), but I have not been able to get this configured properly. Expect I will burn up another Sunday to get these last two items cross off the list. Again, many thanks for the suggestion to look at the Raspberry pi & piCorePlayre / LMS. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ svetter's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=65593 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=112123 _______________________________________________ Squeezecenter mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/squeezecenter
