Other hifis were added using Raspberry Pis running SqueezeLite player, which I’ll cover in a future post. Arrow RIGHT to select new server when displayed. You might see two servers listed, old and new. I added the Airplay plug-in and then scanned the network, and my main hifi was added. Try holding yje BACK (left) arrow on the SB3 remote, enter Setup, scroll down through entire screens a couple times, see if new server appears. Now that the USB drive is available, everything else can be configured from the LMS web interface. I want to mount the drive to the /media folder, so I added the following line to fstab: UUID=1A83-9930 /media vfat defaults 0 0Īnd to test that the drive mounts on boot, I restart: sudo reboot Configure Squeezebox Server Documentation is available in your SqueezeCenters web interface. To mount the drive on boot, we need to update fstab: sudo nano /etc/fstab Sudo service logitechmediaserver start Mount the USB driveįirst of all, we need to find the USB drive using blkidįrom the output of the above, my USB drive was: /dev/sda1: LABEL="MEDIA" UUID="1A83-9930" TYPE="vfat" The below will automatically install the latest version: sudo apt-get install libio-socket-ssl-perl
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I’m using a Raspberry Pi 4 to run the server (the same Pi that is running Pi-Hole), and my music is stored on a USB drive (exFAT) configured to mount on boot (it is permanently attached to the Pi). Now the external USB hard disk is connected. Keep in mind that at this moment Raspberry Pis are hard to get, or quite expensive. 2) Buy a Docker capable NAS, and install latest LMS Communitys Docker image for LMS on Docker. First, the directory is created: sudo mkdir /media/usb-drive. 1) Run LMS on piCorePlayer on a Raspberry Pi, and mount your Music folder on the NAS as a network drive on pCP.
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I use exFAT as the file system so that files larger than 4GB can also be stored. I can control everything from my phone using Squeezer, or from any other device using the web UI. The external hard drive is to be automatically mounted in the directory /media/usb-drive/. To be able to stream my music to any of the players, and even synchronise the music across all of the, I use Logitech Media Server (SqueezeBox Server). Once you confirm that the server is running, try to reconnect and access your Music Library from your Squeezebox. The main hifi has an Airplay client built into it, while the others are older so require a player plugged into Aux (a Raspberry Pi Zero with PhatDAC is perfect for this, which I’ll cover in another post). We eventually found a successful solution: we installed iPeng and iPeng's "iPeng Playback" add-on (which turns the iPhone into an LMS player, allowing playback of the LMS content on the phone's audio system) on her iPhone.Īs the phone's audio system can be redirected to the SoundTouch via Airplay, this setup allows to play LMS content to the SoundTouch, controlled by iPeng.All of my music is digital and I have hifis in several rooms of the house. The SoundTouch's Airplay feature works well. I was very disappointed to discover this, after having bought a SoundTouch 20 for my daugther, so that she could play content from our family LMS through DLNA, and from her iPhone through Airplay.
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The Bose SoundTouch reviews erroneously mention that it supports DLNA servers as music sources (google for "soundtouch DLNA").Īs of August 2014, the SoundTouch implements a Bose-propriertary version of DLNA, compatible with a very limited set of sources, which does not include Logitech Media Server (LMS supports DLNA since version 7.7).