paul- wrote: > Most are very happy with a pi3B+. If you need to buy the hardware, > then I would just get a pi4B. The discount on a 3B+ is normally only a > dollar or two. > > The pi3B+ can only be bought in a 1GB version, the entry level on a 4B > is 2G...... If you have a very large music library, you may choose to > get the 4GB version........but that's overkill for most. > > But good pricing and sales can be found on old versions, so they are > just fine for the right price.
My ~113,000 track library, mostly FLAC, ran just fine on a rPi3B+ running LMS with piCorePlayer. Very responsive, etc. I've since moved to rPi4 with 4GB, running LMS with about ~114,000 track library. But not because it is really needed. These rPi units are so cheap, that I saw no reason not to get the 4GB memory. Certainly not necessary. *Home:* VBA 4TB (2.5) -or- rPi4B/pCP6.0/4TB>LMS 7.9.3>Transporter, Touch, Boom, Radio (all ethernet) *Cottage:* VBA 3TB (2.4) -or- rPi4B/pCP6.0/4TB>LMS 7.9.1>Touch>Benchmark DAC I, Boom, Radio w/Battery (ethernet, Radio WIFI) *Office:* Win10(64)>LMS 7.9.3>Squeezelite *The Wild: *rPi3B+/pCP4.0, hifiberry Dac+Pro, 4TB USB (LMS & Squeezelite) *Controllers:* iPhone11 & iPadAir2 (iPeng), CONTROLLER, or SqueezePlay 7.8 on Win10(64) *Files:* ripping: dbpa > FLAC; post-rip: mp3tag, PerfectTunes; Streaming: Spotify ------------------------------------------------------------------------ garym's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=17325 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=111787 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
