Thanks for the generous feedback and suggestions. I'm happy to report that PCP and LMS are up and running, although I've still had no luck in mounting the Zen to the LMS media library. That said I'm able to see and play all the files on the drive via the Remote Libraries plugin--It's just another click away. Unless any of the below info makes the difference, or there are other drawbacks I've not envisaged, I can live with that. And stop bothering you all with dumb questions. Your patience is much appreciated.
=== paul- wrote: > cifs-utils will handle the SMB versions automatically. The reason that > it is not included by default.......it adds 30MB of dependencies...... > pCP is the minimalist approach to an OS. I have set no pwd on the Zen, so I have left Username and Password blank. But might cifs-utils be relevant to constructing a valid pathname? Man in a van wrote: > Squeezelite settings > Audio output device settings > Headphones (follow > the instructions) Thank you, my bad. Man in a van wrote: > Do you have a back up hard disk with the music files on? I do but that's connected to my Mac for Time machine backups etc. So not very convenient. d6jg wrote: > Do you know which version of Vortexbox is installed? VortexBox SW Version: 2.3 Linux OS Version: Fedora release 20 (Heisenbug) Man in a van wrote: > Man in a van can you please post the full pathway given by the mac smb This is the path to my main music collection: smb://192.168.1.145/files/music/flac Though this also works: smb://Zen/files/music/flac and yes there are also a few read-only folders which are addressed like this: smb://192.168.1.145/music_readonly/flac I've never felt the need to use the read-only path, and haven't set a password for music/flac. Might permissions be an issue? They appear identical to me as Admin user. d6jg wrote: > VB 2.4,includes LMS 7.8 but it can be upgraded to 8.3 - not sure why he > has not gone this route. Yeah, I think this is the long standing problem. I'm only on 2.3, which if I recall could not run the later versions LMS I need for Spotty, BBC sounds, Mixcloud etc. d6jg wrote: > LMS on the VB will need to be switched off but fortunately the > instance(s) of Squeezelite are completely separate to LMS and are not > local player plugin so should continue to work. How you switch LMS off > depends upon the version installed. LMS is now turned off on on the VB, and Squeezelite shows (and plays) on the Mac. Curious to know what you mean about "depending on the version installed." d6jg wrote: > Before troubleshooting the sound Id get the pCP reading the VB files > correctly. I dont think VB has NFS server running so the mount will > need to be CiFS. The default admin user is root/vortexbox. > > Mount Point - /mnt/Zen > IP Address - 192.168.1.145 > Share Name - [whatever is gleaned from the full pathway] > Share Type - CIFS > Options - uid=1001,gid=50,vers=1.0 Thanks, I tried those settings to no effect, though curious about your mention of using something from the pathway for Share Name. The more> advice says to not use "/". I tried using the folder name of flac, but no good. Man in a van wrote: > If the op has a back up disk I would say use that, connected to the pi > > Or copy them onto a disk via the Mac > > I don't see the sense of running LMS on a pi and keeping the files on > the ZEN, either run the Zen or get rid of it. If I was starting out again that's probably what I would do but that would leave me with a £700 CD ripper! If I knew what I was doing (and as noted, I don't really) I'd upgrade Vortexbox so it could handle LMS or install some other OS on there (presuming that's possible). Also I was curious to have a play with the Rpi--it's a lockdown thing I expect. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ themicksa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=40582 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=114949
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