Newbie Question: Squeezelite with Airplay 2 and Spotify Connect

[TheOldPresbyope]

thanks Tim, I'm aware Squeezelite requires LMS and LMS is built-in in my fritzbox router.
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i don't recall if you've mentioned the model of your router.
I ask because I can find no mention of LMS on the FRITZ!Box site, only SMB.
Regards,
Kent

[skr91]

it's the fritzbox 3490. it features a "media server", which I think I remember is a Logitech Media Server (that's what it was originally)
what it does is show in my network as a separate device from file exploer > network and from there I can access to whatever storage is connected via usb to the fritzbox (and to the internal memory as well, but it's only some 400 MB). plus, I can access from volumio's media server and basically I can see the folders as if I were using a file explorer, then play individual files or folders

[TheOldPresbyope]

it's the fritzbox 3490. it features a "media server", which I think I remember is a Logitech Media Server (that's what it was originally)
what it does is show in my network as a separate device from file exploer > network and from there I can access to whatever storage is connected via usb to the fritzbox (and to the internal memory as well, but it's only some 400 MB). plus, I can access from volumio's media server and basically I can see the folders as if I were using a file explorer, then play individual files or folders

I think you'll find that "media server" function is actually an SMB server. :

SMB (Server Message Block) was a technology originally developed by IBM and taken up by Micosoft. SMB supports file sharing, printer sharing, network browsing, and inter-process communications. It's not the only technology which can do these things, but it's a popular one widely supported in various OSes.

Logitech Media Server, on the other hand, was a media streaming server solution, originally proprietary to and now no longer supported by Logitech. It continues to be deeveloped in the LMS community under terms of a GNU GPL.


AFAIK, Volumio uses the same open-source SAMBA implementation of SMB file sharing that moOde does.

For more background, Wikipedia has decent articles on both technologies.


Regards,
Kent

[skr91]

I believe I read it's the logitech server but I may well be wrong

[TheOldPresbyope]

I believe I read it's the logitech server but I may well be wrong

Ah, I finally found a useful reference. It seems what FRITZ!Box calls its Media Server is actually a UPnP media server. Now we're talking yet another technology (which moOde also understands but it's used differently than either LMS or SMB).

Sorry for the noise I generated.

Regards,
Kent

[skr91]

Well, it's useful information to me