Growing up beyond Sonos - streaming Hifi considerations?

@craptakular

On the subject of CD's i find the Amazon Marketplace usually has loads for 1p and then around £1.26 for postage. Which can be cheap.

For speakers. Ensure you check out Shahinian. They're omni directional too. New they're expensive but you should be able to pick up some Compass/Arcs in budget if you look used.
 
Marvt74 said:
@craptakular

On the subject of CD's i find the Amazon Marketplace usually has loads for 1p and then around £1.26 for postage. Which can be cheap.

For speakers. Ensure you check out Shahinian. They're omni directional too. New they're expensive but you should be able to pick up some Compass/Arcs in budget if you look used.
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Thanks, I’ll take a look
 
Marvt74 said:
On the subject of CD's i find the Amazon Marketplace usually has loads for 1p and then around £1.26 for postage. Which can be cheap.
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I'm sceptical you can buy reasonable physical quality cd's, a good production too, for 1p ... of something you genuinely want to archive ..

last few i've bought on discogs/ebay it's not 1p -
Catalog Number: CMADD 506
Condition: Very Good Plus (VG+)
Sleeve Condition: Near Mint (NM or M-)…
Motörhead - No Remorse (2xCD, Comp, RE, RM) -- €5.98

Description: TOM PETTY AND THE HEARTBREAKERS ANTHOLOGY THROUGH THE YEARS 2 X CD , Unit Price: 2.70 GBP…
 
craptakular said:
it looks like my comcerto2000 cpu is supported! interesting.... i'll get the box down from the loft later this week and try it out
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That's exactly why I like squeezebox over Sonos, the former is open source, so anyone can carry on coding for the system. Good luck running Sonos on hardware that isn't supported, ie when it no longer works on windows 7.


Insta 6.2.2 Synology os whilst you're at it, as that version is needed for pinkdots lms
 
hornetstinger said:
That's exactly why I like squeezebox over Sonos, the former is open source, so anyone can carry on coding for the system. Good luck running Sonos on hardware that isn't supported, ie when it no longer works on windows 7.


Insta 6.2.2 Synology os whilst you're at it, as that version is needed for pinkdots lms
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I think I had 6.2 installed before I left for Australia last August.

sorry to be done but what does squeeze box lms do over a simple nas access drive?
 
It's the host service required for the physical squeezeboxes to point to, without it they're dumb devices like computer terminals.

It's like having old school computer terminals connecting to a central network server.

Rather having the computing and is on the device it's on the Nas.

You install and setup Lms. Point to the local internal Nas drive let it scan the files, connect squeezeboxes to your lab, point it to the Synology Nas then you can configure each Squeezebox from display, audio output, replaygain, configure plugins in
 
hornetstinger said:
It's the host service required for the physical squeezeboxes to point to, without it they're dumb devices like computer terminals.

It's like having old school computer terminals connecting to a central network server.

Rather having the computing and is on the device it's on the Nas.

You install and setup Lms. Point to the local internal Nas drive let it scan the files, connect squeezeboxes to your lab, point it to the Synology Nas then you can configure each Squeezebox from display, audio output, replaygain, configure plugins in
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Ok, it sounds sort of like an open source roon minus some better searching and plug and play.

I’ve done a google and it looks like there are plugins for Qobuz and I assume there are plugins for tidal and Spotify etc?
 
Oh you need to install perl on the Synology as it's required by lms.

I don't have internet connection at home so don't use radio streaming but it does have Spotify plugin it's called spotty. Afaik toucan add plugins as required
 
hornetstinger said:
It's the host service required for the physical squeezeboxes to point to, without it they're dumb devices like computer terminals.

It's like having old school computer terminals connecting to a central network server.

Rather having the computing and is on the device it's on the Nas.

You install and setup Lms. Point to the local internal Nas drive let it scan the files, connect squeezeboxes to your lab, point it to the Synology Nas then you can configure each Squeezebox from display, audio output, replaygain, configure plugins in
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I've done a bit of googling and if I have understood it correctly I simply:

  1. install LMS onto my Synology box as per your link
  2. Dig out a Ras Pi 3 and my Hifiberry Gigi+ Pro and case
  3. Install picoreplayer as the client on the Pi
  4. Buy ipeng app from apple store to control the client picoreplayer headlessly.
  5. profit?????

It appears Tidal Hifi and spotify and Deezer are supported by first party apps. Just trying to confirm Qobuz as I'll probably go with that.
 
Don't know anything past 1) as I have three squeezeboxes myself just connect to Lan, connect to Nas and start playing.

Use android phone myself have squeezer and squeeze commander.

You can use Lms on pi as server exactly as you would the Synology if you wish. Got a pi3 as my qnap was slowish the pi3 much faster and I did get Lms installed but it's a bit geeky method messing with command line. You can connect usb HDD where the music is, I got that working but when you switch off pi 3 the mount was lost, so you have to terminal it again.

Far too complicated compared to Nas, so finally just bought Synology ds418.
 
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