Annie Body wrote: > Originally posted this on the Squeezebox forum. Moved to here following > a feedback suggestion. > Does anyone have a proven method of getting LMS to work or a working > version? > Thanks in advance.
Annie - I acknowledge you have been amazingly thorough in your troubleshooting and I commend you (as a 30-year IT guy 1.5 years retired your efforts are much beyond my experience!). But I'm going to do to you what I usually hate for people to do to me (that is, tell me that they've not experienced what I've experienced) - what you describe as necessary is not my experience at all. That is, the need to install an old version of LMS then "update" it to the latest because the latest doesn't install everything. I've installed LMS many, many times (on Windows and Linux) and I've never encountered this necessity. I've always downloaded the latest version from the downloads site and just installed and configured LMS (or, I've used the auto-update process in the LMS Server Config web pages). I'm thus perplexed by what you say and the experience you've had that leads you to the process you've developed as it seems, well, very odd. I used to run LMS on my office Windows10 PC without the issues you describe (I dupped my home media library to USB and took it to the office and set up and LMS server there which I ran for a number of years). I know that's not helpful in resolving your issues, but wanted you to know that it may be difficult to get help as I think your experience is quite outside what most of us on this forum experience. Your process seems very thorough - uninstall and remove everything from the Windows Registry, etc. Though I hesitate to say this (again 30 years IT!), but perhaps the Revo app isn't doing what you want it to do? I know manually editing the Registry is a PITA (god knows I've done it enough times when supporting customers), but perhaps (yet another) uninstall/Registry clean, manually reviewing and deleting in the Registry anything LMS related, then a fresh install of the latest LMS server (I apologize if you've actually done this)? Also, before reinstalling, to get a "clean" system, have you cleaned out your user account AppData folders of anything LMS-related? Look at all three (Local, Roaming, etc.)? A respondent suggested setting up a RaspberryPi as an alternative to using LMS on Windows10 and though that does not solve your issue directly (it requires purchases, etc.) I can say, again from experience, that this is really a terrific way to go. I personally use two RPi systems. One is in my Living Room connected by ethernet cable to my DSL router and by USB directly to my NAS (where my music files are). It runs both an LMS server and a SqueezeLite application (that appears as a music player in the LMS web UI). The second is in my bedroom and it runs just SqueezeLite. I use the terrific piCorePlayer as my LMS system. It is remarkably good and stable. And for less than $150 I get a standalone, compact, functional LMS system that I don't have to futz with much once it's set up. And it's never horked by Windows10 updates (as my Microsoft Surface recently was requiring a complete Windows reinstall). The piCorePlayer UI provides all you need for configuring SqueezeLite and installing LMS (just a click on a button and off you go). You'll have to set up how piCorePlayer "finds" your music library, but once that's done it's easy peasy. Just a thought - doesn't get you going today, but perhaps an idea for avoiding these issues with your Windows10 system? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ gstalnaker's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=63504 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=115832 _______________________________________________ Squeezecenter mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/squeezecenter
