![]() Told it to update, it rewrote the card with the download, rebooted, automatically pulled the config from the stick and used it. Stuck a USB stick in to back up config, clicked "save". Oh, and I did an in-situ update of a couple of picoreplayer endpoints yesterday. ![]() (Obviously irrelevant for you, no need for LMS to just do Airport streaming) Just add a control app, like Squeezer for Android, and it's good to go. However, picoreplayer can also be its own LMS now, which is awesome for people looking to play files. I avoided it at the time, because I didn't have an LMS running on my network (I do now, on my NAS). You can turn on shairport-sync in "tweaks" from the web interface. If you have a spare card for your Pi, you might want to give it a look. It's also stupidly easy to back up/restore config etc. It's tiny and boots really fast from a ramdisk image, so less likely to screw up if powered-down unexpectedly. Your wallet may thank you for it.Īctually - if I were doing it today, I'd try picoreplayer. So, if you can live with iTunes, maybe try giving your AEx better signal upstream or better reclocking downstream. By then, perhaps the network side of audio will have settled down but if not then a used Auralic Aries/LPS and their front-end/player software seems to be a stable and inexpensive solution in the same league as other more spendy network solutions. That said and judging by how Apple/iTunes/streaming is nowadays, I think that time is coming within a couple years. I have heard "better" but to really better my system I'd have to spend $$$$$ and that's not including the home remodeling! I'm tempted to try an Auralic Aries as a replacement for both iTunes and AEx as endpoint, but it just doesn't seem that the return on investment is worth the effort/time/money until I'm forced to ditch iTunes. My system was easily in the same ballpark.) (I also recently enjoyed four hours of high-end vinyl listening at my dealer and came home to compare with my vinyl and digital playback. mRendu was sold and just happy, non-comparative listening ever since. It's not quite a regular signal path because the W4S apparently upsamples, but I've compared it to the microRendu (Ethernet to mRendu to USB/DAC), and the (apparently upsampled) coax won by a hair. Signal goes AEx optical out to a W4S Remedy (? it's R-something, not the USB) powered by an LPS-1 and BNC coax out via silver coax to the BNC coax/DAC. I am more than happy with my AEx as an endpoint using iTunes and Apple Lossless and WAV files. No offense intended to the OP–simply offering a suggestion that the AEx is better than presented online (perhaps especially if your whole chain is "higher" quality front to back). See Win 98 and Win 2000 to download software compatible with earlier versions of Windows.From the YMMV department because systems (and ears) vary so much, I'm putting in a positive vote for the AEx (primarily on the basis of sound quality). ![]() Call Pickup allows you to answer on another extension. ![]()
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