Rich,

I almost reached for miniserver to replace LMS after the BBC switched from AAC to HLS radio streams. Once the fixes for LMS and some of its plugins appeared, I forgot about it. I was under the impression that decent upnp renders for Linux were few and far between and hadn't realised MPD had a upnp plugin/patch. So this looks like a very useful alternative, assuming you don't need some of the other LMS plugins like BBC iplayer, with a straightforward way to make the RPi into upnp renderer using Volumio, and freely available control apps for your table/phone. Must try this out ..

PS Useless things have changed, one of the weak points of MPD is the amount of network traffic sent to the client app when scrolling through lists, hence navigation of large music libraries/playlist can be slow.