Squeezelite How to ensure Lyrion Music Server (9.X) is running for Wiim connectivity

[sleepysurf]

As a longtime LMS user, with 7 Squeezebox devices, I bought a Wiim Ultra for my primary listening room since it incorporates Squeezelite. However, I (and many others) ran into issues where Lyrion Music Server no longer started automatically (if running on Windows), like the legacy Logitech Media Server did. This great post at the Slimdevices Forum (https://forums.slimdevices.com/foru...a-service-help-required?p=1738216#post1738216) explains how to set it up to automatically run as a Windows Service. That solved the issue, at least for my configuration.

Unfortunately, I still need to occasionally power cycle the Ultra before it shows up again in my LMS controller app (Squeezer on Android, or web browser). I hope the Wiim team will collaborate with the LMS/Lyrion developers to offer more seamless interaction.

 

[bwaldron]

While my LMS 9 on Windows runs perfectly as a service that starts up with Windows (I've been running the 9.0 betas for months now), I do realize that others are having issues with this LMS update. I don't see this as an an issue for WiiM support, though -- it's something to be handled on the Lyrion side.

 

[rccarguy]

I would recommend shifting it to a pi5, just seems a lot smoother, LMS on PC is a bit of a resource hog. PLus requiring a high power consumption Windows PC to be on.

 

[bwaldron]

I would recommend shifting it to a pi5, just seems a lot smoother, LMS on PC is a bit of a resource hog. PLus requiring a high power consumption Windows PC to be on.

My Windows server runs on a low power Intel NUC, and I don't find LMS to be a resource hog at all. I do have a few pi's that I use for players (running piCorePlayer), but the pi didn't work all that well running LMS with my rather large library of 65K tracks. For smaller libraries, though, I'd unreservedly recommend the pi solution. Even for novices, piCorePlayer is a pretty simple setup.

 

[rccarguy]

My Windows server runs on a low power Intel NUC, and I don't find LMS to be a resource hog at all. I do have a few pi's that I use for players (running piCorePlayer), but the pi didn't work all that well running LMS with my rather large library of 65K tracks. For smaller libraries, though, I'd unreservedly recommend the pi solution. Even for novices, piCorePlayer is a pretty simple setup.

My library is much bigger than that, and runs fast. Which pi, memory and storage? Going from micro SD to 64GB SSD helped.

 

[bwaldron]

My library is much bigger than that, and runs fast. Which pi, memory and storage? Going from micro SD to 64GB SSD helped.

To be fair, I haven't tried on anything more recent than a pi3B+ 2GB with a USB-connected SSD drive. I'm not surprised that newer/better pi hardware runs much better, but its very good to hear that it can handle a large library. With my older pi, library scans especially were significantly slower than on my NUC (32GB RAM with 6TB across 2 internal SSDs). At one point, I had wanted to try a beefier pi4 setup with SSD, but then the shortages hit.

 

[rccarguy]

To be fair, I haven't tried on anything more recent than a pi3B+ 2GB with a USB-connected SSD drive. I'm not surprised that newer/better pi hardware runs much better, but its very good to hear that it can handle a large library. With my older pi, library scans especially were significantly slower than on my NUC (32GB RAM with 6TB across 2 internal SSDs). At one point, I had wanted to try a beefier pi4 setup with SSD, but then the shortages hit.

FYI I just did a full rescan of my library, 320,000 tracks on a Synology Realtek quad core NAS, wired ethernet, with a Raspbery pi5 4GB, wired ethnet, picoreplayer, and it took 3.5 hours


Discovering files/directories: /mnt/Diskstation/Music (363034 of 363034) Complete 00:01:57

Scanning new music files: /mnt/Diskstation/Music (336497 of 336497) Complete 01:37:35

Album Cover Lookup (1752 of 1752) Complete 00:01:53

Online Genre Lookup and Replacement Complete 00:00:00

Artist Picture Lookup (919 of 919) Complete 00:12:44

Building full text index (6 of 6) Complete 00:02:54

Update Album release types (4 of 4) Complete 00:00:01

Pre-caching Artwork (72526 of 72526) Complete 01:27:17

Database Optimize (2 of 2) Complete 00:03:15

The server has finished scanning your media library. Total Time:03:27:36 (Monday, November 18, 2024 / 1:47 PM)

 

[bwaldron]

FYI I just did a full rescan of my library, 320,000 tracks on a Synology Realtek quad core NAS, wired ethernet, with a Raspbery pi5 4GB, wired ethnet, picoreplayer, and it took 3.5 hours


Discovering files/directories: /mnt/Diskstation/Music (363034 of 363034) Complete 00:01:57

Scanning new music files: /mnt/Diskstation/Music (336497 of 336497) Complete 01:37:35

Album Cover Lookup (1752 of 1752) Complete 00:01:53

Online Genre Lookup and Replacement Complete 00:00:00

Artist Picture Lookup (919 of 919) Complete 00:12:44

Building full text index (6 of 6) Complete 00:02:54

Update Album release types (4 of 4) Complete 00:00:01

Pre-caching Artwork (72526 of 72526) Complete 01:27:17

Database Optimize (2 of 2) Complete 00:03:15

The server has finished scanning your media library. Total Time:03:27:36 (Monday, November 18, 2024 / 1:47 PM)

Nice. I could live with that (especially on network-attached storage) for a library of that size. I just ran a full scan of my smaller library (on internal storage) and it took about 15 minutes. (Note that I don't use full-text search in LMS, so that makes things slightly quicker.)

Discovering files/directories: D:\Audio\Music (50682 of 50682) Complete 00:00:30
Scanning new music files: D:\Audio\Music (46464 of 46464) Complete 00:05:13
Discovering files/directories: D:\Audio\Classic Radio (17289 of 17289) Complete 00:00:10
Scanning new music files: D:\Audio\Classic Radio (17203 of 17203) Complete 00:01:44
Discovering playlists: D:\LMS\Playlists (7 of 7) Complete 00:00:00
Scanning new playlists: D:\LMS\Playlists (6 of 6) Complete 00:00:01
Artist Picture Lookup (1863 of 1863) Complete 00:02:44
Update Album release types (4 of 4) Complete 00:00:00
Create Library Views (3 of 3) Complete 00:00:01
Pre-caching Artwork (3675 of 3675) Complete 00:04:10
Database Optimize (2 of 2) Complete 00:00:06
The server has finished scanning your media library.
Total Time: 00:14:39 (Thursday, December 5, 2024 / 4:06 PM)