I'm slightly amazed to discover that I could, in principle, dispense with Logitech hardware, or any other separate audio DACS such as Raspberry Pis etc, by using LMS with squeezelite. I managed to get squeezelite to send output to sox, and then to an http stream in wav format. This is then made available to any DLNA/UPnP compliant amplifier via a UPnP server (in my case I'm using minimserver) as a stream simply using a playlist containing the source http address. My understanding is that all UPnP devices are meant to support such streaming (I'm not referring to Internet radio support).
Both my main amplifiers are connected to my wired home network and support such streaming up to at least 24/96 quality. Since the DACs are the same as those I use playing via my Touch and coax, I doubt I'm losing quality, but I admit I haven't fully checked that yet. I know people are dubious about UPnP, as I myself have been when trying to use it to access a large classical library, but with a good server just using streaming it seems to work well. And the best bit is that all the work I've put into tailoring LMS to my needs still works as before. If anyone wants to know how this can be done, reply here and I'll include more information. Current mostly minor (for me) issues are that: - I currently can't get at the squeezelite log in case of problems (see previous post) - there's a couple of seconds a lag in controlling the music using my normal laptop browser - I haven't fully tested trying to sync multiple players yet and don't know if that will be stable. LMS 7.9 on VortexBox Midi running Xubuntu 14.04, FLACs 16->24 bit, 44.1->192kbps. Wired Touch + EDO, coax to Musical Fidelity M1 CLiC. Wireless Xubuntu 14.04 laptop controls LMS via Chromium. Meridian Explorer USB DAC to listen via Squeezelite on Vortexbox & other PCs as required. Spare Touch in loft. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PasTim's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=41642 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=97046 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
