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Post by mikeyb on May 10, 2020 14:48:13 GMT
I’ve dropped Roon in favour of Logitech Media Server using the Material Skin on my MoOde Audio Pi, gives me direct access to Qobuz, Spotify, Bandcamp, Radio Paradise, TuneinRadio, plus my own music server 😊 Can control both of my Pi setups, one on my main HiFi system and another one in my PC room, can be synced to work in unison or separately. PC room Pi is running PiCoreplayer as an alternative to MoOde and both work flawlessly 😉 Roon - £90 per year LMS - Free Material Skin - Free ( Donations accepted ) Several photos to show what the Material Skin is capable of, designed and maintained by a Logitech Software employee 👍 Works in Portrait and Landscape mode which is another plus over Roon, the Material Skin can even work similar to Roon Radio and continue to play music similar to what you’ve just been listening to once the album/playlist is finished 😉😊         |
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Post by Bigman80 on May 10, 2020 15:25:17 GMT
Blood hell....that looks good!
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Post by pauld on May 10, 2020 15:38:33 GMT
I’ve always liked LMS. Although I don’t run it these days as I’m not currently using my SB’s. I’ve heard it won’t work very well with the latest Apple Mac operating system which I’m using on my iMac.
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Post by antonio on May 10, 2020 15:39:46 GMT
Doesn't look bad, and free of charge. We've got a lifetime sub to Roon and have to say very happy with it.
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Post by mikeyb on May 10, 2020 16:29:34 GMT
Blood hell....that looks good! Not bad eh, I have Roon up until December but I’d rather have access to Bandcamp and Spotify than continue using Roon. LMS is now on version 8.0.0 with regular updates. |
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Post by stevew on May 10, 2020 16:57:01 GMT
Blood hell....that looks good! Not bad eh, I have Roon up until December but I’d rather have access to Bandcamp and Spotify than continue using Roon. LMS is now on version 8.0.0 with regular updates. It really does look good ... and I was contemplating switching from Audirvana to Roon. I am running a Mac mini, with various raspberry pi’s loaded with MOode to play Qobuz. How do I set up LMS with Material Skin? Cheers |
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Post by Deleted on May 10, 2020 17:41:09 GMT
I dug out my old Squeezebox Classic a few weeks back when I finally tidied up my office system. I run LMS on an old laptop and use Qobuz plus my local music.  I had intended getting another Bluesound node same as in the main system as the Classic won’t play hires streams but so far I haven’t felt the need........ |
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Post by Bigman80 on May 10, 2020 18:11:20 GMT
Blood hell....that looks good! Not bad eh, I have Roon up until December but I’d rather have access to Bandcamp and Spotify than continue using Roon. LMS is now on version 8.0.0 with regular updates. I presume you either need a subscription to streaming or have a local NAS? |
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Post by Deleted on May 10, 2020 18:45:45 GMT
Roon is good for library duties but for SQ not dpso
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Post by mikeyb on May 10, 2020 22:26:03 GMT
Not bad eh, I have Roon up until December but I’d rather have access to Bandcamp and Spotify than continue using Roon. LMS is now on version 8.0.0 with regular updates. I presume you either need a subscription to streaming or have a local NAS? If you want to use Qobuz or the like the yeah you need a sub, for the likes of Bandcamp you only need an account there and can play stuff from your wish list for free, only 128kps but fine for free stuff. |
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Post by antonio on May 11, 2020 4:10:40 GMT
Roon is good for library duties but for SQ not dpso dpso? |
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Post by Deleted on May 11, 2020 6:43:18 GMT
Not sure why it read that!
Should have said not so good
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Post by antonio on May 11, 2020 7:39:20 GMT
May I ask why you feel Roon sq is not so good and compared to what?
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Post by Deleted on May 11, 2020 11:52:35 GMT
We have an inside track on a lot of audio playback software development, Roon is one of the best for library organisation SQ is not top of there wish list, a robust easy to use, nice GUI, repeatable and chimp proof. Other players offer better playback, but at the expense of the GUI. Roon are ex Meridian employees along with that bollox MQA LOL. If you are looking for batter playback then bubble UPnP offer better SQ. But it is no where as slick as Roon Personally I use the Lumin app for day to day listening, for critical I wrote my own Linux based memory player, its a bit clunky but its solid and sounds wonderful but I need to expand the play list from 10 songs  |
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Post by stevew on May 12, 2020 8:35:54 GMT
So .. got LMS loaded on an old laptop. Working fine.
Got the plugins for Qobuz and upnp working.
Can I find the box to tick for Material Skins?
Can I buggery.
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Post by mikeyb on May 12, 2020 8:49:33 GMT
So .. got LMS loaded on an old laptop. Working fine. Got the plugins for Qobuz and upnp working. Can I find the box to tick for Material Skins? Can I buggery. It's under the plugins, which version of Lms did you install, it's now on version 8.0.0 |
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Post by stevew on May 12, 2020 9:04:43 GMT
So .. got LMS loaded on an old laptop. Working fine. Got the plugins for Qobuz and upnp working. Can I find the box to tick for Material Skins? Can I buggery. It's under the plugins, which version of Lms did you install, it's now on version 8.0.0 Ahh.. version 7.7.6 Should I delete this version and find the newer one? |
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Post by mikeyb on May 12, 2020 9:07:29 GMT
It's under the plugins, which version of Lms did you install, it's now on version 8.0.0 Ahh.. version 7.7.6 Should I delete this version and find the newer one? Try here, I'm at work just now and can't remember where I downloaded 8.0.0 from but it had updated only yesterday so this page might be the correct version downloads.slimdevices.com/nightly/?ver=8.0 |
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Post by stevew on May 12, 2020 9:08:10 GMT
Cheers
Gives me something to do!
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Post by stevew on May 12, 2020 9:32:56 GMT
Many thanks..
It’s now scanning my NAS.
Just have to try and remember the IP address to open it up
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Post by stevew on May 12, 2020 10:35:01 GMT
Yes!!
Love it when something works.
Many thanks Mikey
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