{"id":1001,"date":"2016-12-19T21:09:04","date_gmt":"2016-12-19T21:09:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/?p=1001"},"modified":"2016-12-19T21:09:04","modified_gmt":"2016-12-19T21:09:04","slug":"a-new-start-with-squeezeserver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/2016\/12\/a-new-start-with-squeezeserver\/","title":{"rendered":"A new start with SqueezeServer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I first started running with the squeeze ecosystem in about 2008. I ordered an original squeezebox from slim devices, which took months to come and arrived as a rebranded logitech squeezebox (not as handsome as the original). I first ran the server software on a specially bought Fit PC (which cost \u00a3250!).<\/p>\n<p>The Fit PC served me well, if slowly for several years. It travelled to New Zealand with us for a year, where I tried to install Windows 7 on it with no success.\u00a0 When we got back home I Father Christmas bought me one of the first generation of Raspberry Pis. With <a href=\"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/2013\/01\/raspberry-pi-as-squeezebox-server-logitech-media-server-with-spotify\/\">help <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/2013\/10\/adding-squeezelite-to-squeezboxserver-on-rpi\/\">from<\/a> the internet I got the Pi running LMS (slowly). I was delighted.<\/p>\n<p>By now my display on the squeezebox was fading, and one day it stopped working.\u00a0 I sold it on ebay only to discover <a href=\"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/2013\/11\/squeezebox-frustration-prompts-action\/\">it was only the power supply<\/a>.\u00a0 Argh!\u00a0 I then built my own hacked around player (<a href=\"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/tag\/rpizebox\/\">RPizeBox<\/a>) that even worked with the remote control.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-448 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/500D_1901-1024x682.jpg\" width=\"604\" height=\"402\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/500D_1901-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/500D_1901-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/500D_1901.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>That got silly, so I bought a Squeezebox Touch in 2014. As new Raspberry Pis came out I updated the server by just moving on the sd-card.<\/p>\n<p>The server was pretty badly hacked together over the years as I used peoples&#8217; work to solve problems with the BBC, Spotify etc.\u00a0 Eventually it began to be problematic a lot of the time.\u00a0 I decided to rebuild the server from scratch.<\/p>\n<p>But&#8230; before I did this I thought that things had moved on so much &#8220;there must be an image&#8221;.\u00a0 2 minutes later and I was downloading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.max2play.com\/en\/\">max2play<\/a>.\u00a0 Amazingly, within 20 minutes I had a working LMS. I was flabberghasted. So much work saved. I immediately dobbed them a 5 year license for all of \u20ac20. This new server was immediately more stable and faster than anything I had achieved with my RPi3. Half an hour later and an old RPi2 was plugged in to the living room amp through HDMI as a headless player. I ordered a HiFi Berry amp and 7&#8243; touch screen for the RPi3 and a week later had a perfect replacement for my touch. No idea why I had not done this before. I guess it is time, but at the moment I am stuck at home recovering from a stupid operation in the sole of my foot.<\/p>\n<p>I got really thinking and rebuilt the pi connected to the amp as retropie, added squeezelite and kodi and xsqueeze and now can control the seezelite with the TV remote. Result!<\/p>\n<p>The troops are delighted and we all wonder why I never did this before. The only downside is the lack of remote for the new &#8220;Touch&#8221; in the kitchen, but I am hoping that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hab-tunes.com\">hab-tunes.com<\/a> can fill that gap.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I first started running with the squeeze ecosystem in about 2008. I ordered an original squeezebox from slim devices, which took months to come and arrived as a rebranded logitech squeezebox (not as handsome as the original). I first ran the server software on a specially bought Fit PC (which cost \u00a3250!). The Fit PC &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/2016\/12\/a-new-start-with-squeezeserver\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A new start with SqueezeServer<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[100,33,88,36],"class_list":["post-1001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geekiness","tag-max2play","tag-raspberry-pi","tag-retropie","tag-squeezelite"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1001"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1002,"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001\/revisions\/1002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomas.w-p.me.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}