RPI software choices....whats my best option.??

[mikeyb]

would be good if you had. will persevere with 4.2 for now. how did you get that nice pic on the phone.. ive switched something on and so far a pic of mountains has appeared on screensaver behind the album art. not sure if it will change again...lol

That is on my android phone and it just came up like that

[struth]

Ok, avoiding music library and looking under artists it orders correctly(volumio2) and you get album art.... under albums it also orders correctly but no album art.... using music library, it takes the order in the folder and you get album art...

so now we know...not tried genre

[guyhayton]

Moode 4.2 for me... but since I discovered JRiver I now tend to just use Moode as a UPnP client and send my music to it via Jriver (much nicer interface).
The only time I goto the Moode interface is to play radio stations.

Tim is doing a great job with Moode in my opinion and I send him a donation at every release (and sometimes in between)

[struth]

Moode 4.2 for me... but since I discovered JRiver I now tend to just use Moode as a UPnP client and send my music to it via Jriver (much nicer interface).
The only time I goto the Moode interface is to play radio stations.

Tim is doing a great job with Moode in my opinion and I send him a donation at every release (and sometimes in between)

Got that to try yet on moode when I switch back to it. After saying that volumio is quite good at many things, but not a fixed and perfect system. I can link my jriver to volumio too and play through to it as well tho. Tried that today. also goes to my oppo should i wish or for that matter all three.
it also does spotify which moode doesnt without code.

[guyhayton]

I don't do Spotify - so can't say I've noticed it's omission <lol>

The RPI with IQaudiodac+ has been a revelation to me... it's just a great working solution! (I do have my eyes on the new allo Katana DAC though )

[Stratmangler]

I don't do Spotify

I do, and it's a doddle to run on piCorePlayer.

[struth]

I do, and it's a doddle to run on piCorePlayer.

Need to get someone to set it up on my machine. Ive got the image tho. Lol

[Stratmangler]

Need to get someone to set it up on my machine. Ive got the image tho. Lol

It's a doddle, Grant!
I had it up and running within 15 minutes of unboxing the RasPi hardware.
OK, I am comfortable with networking to a large extent, but there were a few thing that threw me, and took a good few hours to figure out, but the basic hardware function took literally minutes, because the instructions were so clear.

My issues were specific to my installation, but after a bit of contemplation and lateral thought (and literally reading the installation notes from the https interface) those problems were overcome.

The Spotty app is absolutely brilliant, and it properly interfaces with your online account.
You click on "follow artist", and the artist appears on the https interface, along with the app.

The local library takes a little bit of thought to work out, but once sorted it's extremely stable.
And for me, the local library thing is absolutely key - and in my case it has proven to be rock solid and reliable.
And it's not particularly hard to drive - my son (who turns 18yo in just over a month - where did the time go?) has been able to operate the Squeezeboxes here for at least the last 10 years.

Remember that piCorePlayer can run both server and player simultaneously, and can be addressed from any web browser to run it.
As of tonight I have version 4.0.0 running- it seems to be very stable, but I'll make a judgement on that in a couple of weeks time.

[struth]

It's a doddle, Grant!
I had it up and running within 15 minutes of unboxing the RasPi hardware.
OK, I am comfortable with networking to a large extent, but there were a few thing that threw me, and took a good few hours to figure out, but the basic hardware function took literally minutes, because the instructions were so clear.

My issues were specific to my installation, but after a bit of contemplation and lateral thought (and literally reading the installation notes from the https interface) those problems were overcome.

The Spotty app is absolutely brilliant, and it properly interfaces with your online account.
You click on "follow artist", and the artist appears on the https interface, along with the app.

The local library takes a little bit of thought to work out, but once sorted it's extremely stable.
And for me, the local library thing is absolutely key - and in my case it has proven to be rock solid and reliable.
And it's not particularly hard to drive - my son (who turns 18yo in just over a month - where did the time go?) has been able to operate the Squeezeboxes here for at least the last 10 years.

Remember that piCorePlayer can run both server and player simultaneously, and can be addressed from any web browser to run it.
As of tonight I have version 4.0.0 running- it seems to be very stable, but I'll make a judgement on that in a couple of weeks time.

sounds good Chris. think it will be beyond me tho. getting very difficult do do much now tbh. Have to await someone with the ability to visit(might be a long wait lol)not sure where my usb keyboard is either. only thing in my favour is i currently always use ethernet.
volumio2 is ok tho, as is what ive seen of moode 4-2. not what i want but will do. volumio at least looks good, but the spotify plugin is only of use to play to. it does show the info of whats playing in volumio but there is little or no control from within.

I get this

[mikeyb]

Grant, couldn't find any older versions of moode on my Nas other than 2.0, 2.1

I must have deleted the newer versions, sorry