So following on from my thoughts to upgrade my old windows machine that ran LMS I've scrapped that idea. It's old, slow and probably not worth throwing money at.
I'm hoping to get an LMS build up and running relatively cheaply (hence pi) and hopefully quickly and have been reading up on it for a few hours.
Could anyone advise me on a few things? I'm a total Pi/Linux noob but I figured how hard can it be. Famous last words.
1. I have an external hard drive with in the region of 500gb of FLAC files, will a Pi handle this ok? Around 17000 files. I play at full quality, no transcoding.
2. I've only got 2 players currently but may add more, is there any sort of limit on how many the Pi can handle?
3. My setup is all local, no internet connection as I don't run anything like Spotify or radio and no plugins really, pretty much vanilla LMS. Will the Pi server be ok with a manual IP? There's nothing running DHCP, everything is just conneccted to a cheap unmanaged switch and manually IP'd.
4. With my Windows setup I had the server hibernate after a period of inactivity to save power. Can the Pi do this/is it even necessary?
5. I also used the windows machine to rip new CD's to FLAC and transcode to Mp3 for portable devices, can a Pi setup handle this? Is it even possible? I see EAC isn't on Linux but there are alternatives.
6. Finally and probably most importantly, how hard is LMS and PiCorePlayer to setup and add my 2 players plus external drive? I'm mostly experienced in Windows setups, I can learn though.
Thanks in advance for any help.
I'm hoping to get an LMS build up and running relatively cheaply (hence pi) and hopefully quickly and have been reading up on it for a few hours.
Could anyone advise me on a few things? I'm a total Pi/Linux noob but I figured how hard can it be. Famous last words.
1. I have an external hard drive with in the region of 500gb of FLAC files, will a Pi handle this ok? Around 17000 files. I play at full quality, no transcoding.
2. I've only got 2 players currently but may add more, is there any sort of limit on how many the Pi can handle?
3. My setup is all local, no internet connection as I don't run anything like Spotify or radio and no plugins really, pretty much vanilla LMS. Will the Pi server be ok with a manual IP? There's nothing running DHCP, everything is just conneccted to a cheap unmanaged switch and manually IP'd.
4. With my Windows setup I had the server hibernate after a period of inactivity to save power. Can the Pi do this/is it even necessary?
5. I also used the windows machine to rip new CD's to FLAC and transcode to Mp3 for portable devices, can a Pi setup handle this? Is it even possible? I see EAC isn't on Linux but there are alternatives.
6. Finally and probably most importantly, how hard is LMS and PiCorePlayer to setup and add my 2 players plus external drive? I'm mostly experienced in Windows setups, I can learn though.
Thanks in advance for any help.