Even better, there is now a client app/player called Squeezelite that will also run on Linux in lieu of needing a hardware based wireless Logitech player which I'd long since sold off. What else can I try? Lo and behold I discover that LMS never really died but has been nurtured along by a group of enthusiasts/programmers and is now in the public domain not unlike Linux itself. Though scratched, the itch was still there. And darn if JRiver didn't work flawlessly on Linux. Next I put JRiver on the Linux server and got it up and running and it was like old home week only on a different platform. Anyway, so I got the Linux server all working and networked with my PC, laptop, iPad et. Ultimately I ended up with Linux Mint because of its Cinnamon GUI but Ubuntu worked great as well. I repurposed a simple PC I'd been using as a NAS using FreeNAS and replace FreeNAS with Linux. It's a bit geeky but overall I've found Linux to be remarkably robust and stable. Then just this past month I got an itch to try a Linux server just because. (FYI, I bought an iPad mostly because of JRemote - that should tell you something. Then a few years ago Logitech bailed out on the whole LMS thing and I got curious about alternatives. Starting back around 2006/7 I've owned at least 2 versions of Squeezebox players that were linked to what later became Logitech Media Server (LMS) which I ran on a PC. Thought I'd share this since it's not every day I get truly surprised (in a good way) with new approaches to audio.
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