![]() ![]() If you check google, you should find a fairly decent amount of guidance on setting up an LMS on a Raspberry Pi. In your situation, a tablet, PC/laptop or phone would replace the Touch as the audio player. A fantastic device for its time, which can be bought on ebay still, although the prices are high. I use the venerable Logitech Squeezebox Touch as a hardware player. Furthermore, Plexamp preserves PLEX’s Roon-like metadata layer. ![]() You can install Plex on it, and their app Plexamp is very nice for streaming music. ![]() I have an LMS setup in this manner, but it is running on an old Linux PC for me, rather than a Raspberry Pi. Yet another gear-obsessed group of hobbyists The Synology works great. On an Android device, a free app called Orange Squeeze is a great player, which will connect to LMS on the Raspberry Pi over wifi and then output the music from the phone or tablet. One could purchase an old tablet and connect it to speakers to act as a media player, similar to a Sonos or other commercial multi-room audio system. It works well and is free from the Microsoft store. Squeezelite-X works in the same way for a Windows machine and it also provides a graphical interface. the Raspberry Pi running LMS).Ī headless local player called 'Squeezelite' is installed on any Linux machine you want to play the music. I am a long time lifetime plex pass user and enjoy the heck out of plex. All that being said, it is better than a few years ago and there isnt really a compelling alternative. control the LMS) one can use a web browser that is pointed towards the local LMS (i.e. Plexamp is a better audio only player than the regular client, but the OP is correct in that music is an afterthought in the plex ecosystem. It supports a wide range of music file formats (mp3, FLAC etc). The LMS software is old, but still updated every now and then. Many appear to run Logitech Media Server (LMS) on their Raspberry Pis and then install music player software on the machine that will be playing the audio. This makes some lossy codecs unacceptable given their cutoffs. I can also hear ~20hz bass notes with extreme clarity. I, for example, can hear tones up into the ranges of 16-18khz. It's also important to note that, due to sampling, you want to have quite a bit of cushion between the cutoffs of your natural hearing and the actual cutoff of reproduction. While 320k sounds great, if the cutoff is 40hz to 18khz then many people can hear well beyond those ranges, and dithering can only go so far. Then you have the issue of frequency ranges and bit depths. Just as well, if sending something over bluetooth or other form of wireless, you will double-compress with a lossy codec at both steps which can be very destructive. The reason being that inaudible differences in lossy compressed files are amplified greatly to the point of being audible by many post-processing effects that should otherwise be non-destructive. If you're doing any sort of post-processing on your end of the chain, which you almost certainly are if running anything approaching an audiophile setup, you want entirely lossless. ![]()
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