paul- wrote: > Lots of distractions so lets start with some basics. > > Players do not "See" music. It is the LMS server that "Sees" the music > library, and then sends it to a player. You could very easily have the > piCorePlayer player device connecting to your Mac LMS server. If you > are getting confused with multiple LMS servers shut them all down except > one. > > Also forget about players at this point. Players not playing music is a > completely different set of things to work on, and they are not really > related. > > > Please describe your desired hardware state.
Paul, you nail it when you talk about being confused between players and servers on LMS. I've been using LMS for 12 years or so, but it still bends my mind sometimes. I'm going to spend time today trying, as you suggest, turning off everything (including wifi) except the Pi. From the rest of the conversation (thanks for your advice everyone) I'm going to concentrate on mounting via CIFS/SMB, though I'm not sure I understand your later advice on that Paul. I'll be back! DESIRED HARDWARE STATE: The NAS box sits with the main hifi system and is connected via DAC and RCA jacks. At the top of the house I have a Squeezebox Touch that I use only to play out to powered speakers. Right now the functioning LMS server is running on my MacMini desktop, which is not ideal. But I do still listen music on the mac (with powered desktop speakers), via the Local Player plugin and would like to continue doing that. In all, I had envisioned the Pi as the single LMS server for the above players(?), using the NAS drive (or whatever it is, technically speaking) as the library. PS does this forum's server regularly fall over? I haven't been able to connect for some hours until now. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ themicksa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=40582 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=114949 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
