DavidBullock62 wrote: 
> Thank you for the replies.
> 
> I do agree that the RPi is a very tempting solution. The only reason
> that I am not really considering the RPi route at the moment is that I
> changed jobs two years ago, and unfortunately at the moment I am
> exceedingly time poor with the new job, study and family. 
> 
> I will have a look today at the RPi options as it is a quiet sort of day
> for me, I was hoping for something quite turnkey and with a technology
> that I was already familiar with. (Haven't touched Unix for a few
> years.)

I think you might be overestimating what's involved to setup
PiCorePlayer on an rpi running LMS, with your NAS mounted. pCP is GUI
based and if all goes well, if setting up just a LMS server, you should
be up quite quickly. For those experienced in building them, < 1 hour.
It seems that mounting the drives can get tricky for some. I use a USB
HDD no problem.

Check out the "getting started" page:
https://docs.picoreplayer.org/getting-started/ there are also a few
videos on youtube you can take a peek at to see what's involved.

There is also the power consumption advantage to consider I went from
having my win 7 machine have to be on in order to listen to music to pcP
running 24/7. I measured the power difference once, but forgot where I
put those notes :rolleyes:

Jim


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