Thebiglebowski wrote: 
> Don't know if there is something wrong but I'm getting a really low
> opinion of squeezebox now. I replaced my sonos connect with a touch
> because it supports 24/96 but its been nothing but a pain in the arse.
> With the sonos I just had the connect and controlled it with my iPad app
> which is very well designed. The squezebox app looks cheap and seems to
> respond very slowly if at all. I have to use a SB media server and
> currently have it running on my QNAP NAS but either the media server, SB
> touch or iPad app seem to lose connectivity with each other. There is
> nothing wrong with my LAN as it is hard wired cat 6e run specially for
> streaming to my NAIM system. 
> 
> Am I doing something wrong here??? All I want is to have is the SB touch
> connected to my pre-amp and control it via an iPad with my music stored
> on a NAS. Do I have to have this media server crap or mysquezebox.com
> malarkey. 
> 
> Thinking very strongly about going back to sonos, even with its
> limitations just the fact it works and has an app that seems to have
> been designed with thought is blowing this annoying thing away
> currently. 
> 
> PS Logitech support is appalling have emailed them god knows how many
> times and never once got a reply to my questions or request for help.

Yes, you do have to be running Logitech Media Server (LMS) somewhere in
your system. On a NAS, on a PC, etc.  Not sure why you're having
problems. I do know that some very underpowered NAS units struggle to
run LMS. You might temporarily install LMS on a PC and see if that works
any better and that may also help diagnose the issues with your current
NAS setup.  If you do decide to keep the SB setup, you will find that
the iPengHD app or the SqueezePad app are head and shoulders above the
logitech free app.

mysqueezebox.com is "LMS in the cloud". One can connect to this without
a local LMS if you don't want to play your own music (i.e., you use
internet radio, pandora, MOG, spotify, etc.).  But even with your local
LMS, you would still create a mysqueezebox.com account and enter the
credentials in your local LMS. This is so you can use some of the
squeezebox apps, listen to things like Pandora, etc.  If you don't care
about any of these things and ONLY want to play your own music, you
don't have to register with mysb.com and there is some way of swiping or
something to go past the screen asking for this.  In my opinion, setting
up the free account on mysb.com is a good idea and gives you more
features with the players. Your choice.


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