The Wonderful World of Lyrion

[rccarguy]

i just tried installing Lyrion on Windows 10 desktop to see what's what:
what a horrible experience, it couldn't discover my NAS drive (that is properly shown as a mounted drive on Windows), no matter what i did. known issue with Windows credentials it seems.
I'm not new to this, so tried changing its service credentials to my Windows username, tried the Lyrion addon for changing - all didn't work.
not gonna waste more time on this, specially wtih Navidrome working so well on my arm based NAS

LMS is great, once it's setup. I've used it on a laptop, then moved to NAS, then a new NAS, and a raspberry Pi.

Brilliant music server. If you have chance install on your NAS.

 

[slartibartfast]

i just tried installing Lyrion on Windows 10 desktop to see what's what:
what a horrible experience, it couldn't discover my NAS drive (that is properly shown as a mounted drive on Windows), no matter what i did. known issue with Windows credentials it seems.
I'm not new to this, so tried changing its service credentials to my Windows username, tried the Lyrion addon for changing - all didn't work.
not gonna waste more time on this, specially wtih Navidrome working so well on my arm based NAS

Windows is probably the worst platform unfortunately. What is the Lyrion add-on for changing?

 

[anonyless]

LMS is great, once it's setup. I've used it on a laptop, then moved to NAS, then a new NAS, and a raspberry Pi.

Brilliant music server. If you have chance install on your NAS.

not going to happen. I have over 60k tracks on my NAS, that take Symfonium 1:25minutes to index . I don't think LMS has the flexibility and lightweightness Navidrome has to offer, from what i've experienced so far

 

[anonyless]

Windows is probably the worst platform unfortunately. What is the Lyrion add-on for changing?

some utility that appeared on the Start menu, for changing Lyrion server user credentials (that doesn't work)

 

[slartibartfast]

LMS is great, once it's setup. I've used it on a laptop, then moved to NAS, then a new NAS, and a raspberry Pi.

Brilliant music server. If you have chance install on your NAS.

Even if the upcoming Audio Pro W series speakers don't work with the WiiM app they will all work with LMS since they have Squeezelite

 

[rccarguy]

not going to happen. I have over 60k tracks on my NAS, that take Symfonium 1:25minutes to index . I don't think LMS has the flexibility and lightweightness Navidrome has to offer, from what i've experienced so far

I haven't used what you're using, however I've found generic UPNP/DNLA servers pretty crap.

I have 300,000 tracks and it sorts them out brilliantly.

 

[rccarguy]

some utility that appeared on the Start menu, for changing Lyrion server user credentials (that doesn't work)

I've had issues with the new LMS on the PC requiring strawberry perl. Worked fine with the built in perl. Auto start service and auto mount worked with the old one.

 

[TimTim]

Lyrion is fairly slow with big libraries and not exactly pretty but it works. Works well on a Pi and no issues with a dacs or a NAS. Until Wiim fixes Plex support, I’ll definitely keep a Pi running.

 

[simbun]

I haven't used what you're using, however I've found generic UPNP/DNLA servers pretty crap.

This is all quite typical for an OpenSubsonic solution (see attached images). While much of this can be accomplished with MinimServer, the browsing experience lacks a certain cohesiveness - especially with the WHA!

 

[castalla]

Here's eversolo's version of squeezelite

 

[Hiphiman]

I continue to be amazed (after 15 years) at just how LMS brings audio to the world.

Here's the server and player running on an Android tablet

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It is excellent, although be careful: I blame it for pulling me down the rabbit hole that means I want the best mastering of my favourite albums, rather than just the one or two that a streaming service will serve up
Also, I find it can be temperamental, so be prepared to have to spend time sorting out problems when it becomes confused. For example, on the last two occasions I have used my Raspberry Pi version it has let me down. After working away, rescanning my (by then expanded) library caused a crash which took hours to sort out- the lesson seemed to be to rescan the whole library even when there is only a small increment. And this weekend I returned to find I just could not connect to it at all and did not have the time to troubleshoot (even a changed IP would mean connecting wired to the router, attaching a keyboard and HDMI). Plug, play and forget it is not.
My Mac version, though, has worked fine DLNA streaming to a Sonos when I am away.

 

[rccarguy]

It is excellent, although be careful: I blame it for pulling me down the rabbit hole that means I want the best mastering of my favourite albums, rather than just the one or two that a streaming service will serve up
Also, I find it can be temperamental, so be prepared to have to spend time sorting out problems when it becomes confused. For example, on the last two occasions I have used my Raspberry Pi version it has let me down. After working away, rescanning my (by then expanded) library caused a crash which took hours to sort out- the lesson seemed to be to rescan the whole library even when there is only a small increment. And this weekend I returned to find I just could not connect to it at all and did not have the time to troubleshoot (even a changed IP would mean connecting wired to the router, attaching a keyboard and HDMI). Plug, play and forget it is not.
My Mac version, though, has worked fine DLNA streaming to a Sonos when I am away.

I've got a spare drive, on a couple of times the system was corrupted couldn't even boot into picoreplayer, so I go to my backup drive clone that to the corrupted one. the dual bay SATA docking bay comes in handy as it has one click clone feature

 

[kjell.bjornfors]

I have been using it since it was named Slimserver in the beginning of 2000 ish. I am still very amased over what it can do. I know it can sometimes be a little tricky to mount harddrives to it och cach your music from a nas, but there is always help to get in the forum. Today itś much more userfriendly if you use a phone thanks to material skin. Today I have 17 players in my home. Most of them are rpi/hifiberry but also Wiim Ultra and Wiim Amp. Thanks to squeezelite itś no problem to synk those together.

 

[rccarguy]

I have been using it since it was named Slimserver in the beginning of 2000 ish. I am still very amased over what it can do. I know it can sometimes be a little tricky to mount harddrives to it och cach your music from a nas, but there is always help to get in the forum. Today itś much more userfriendly if you use a phone thanks to material skin. Today I have 17 players in my home. Most of them are rpi/hifiberry but also Wiim Ultra and Wiim Amp. Thanks to squeezelite itś no problem to synk those together.

It's great that a old eco system is still updated and works, I have a Squeezebox Radio, Wiim Ultra, two Logitech Touches, and a classic V3. One classic V3 was going unreliable with reboots so that is scrap.

Also the host service is open source, so went from system to system, the app is control over IP so that's multi platform. I can use it on Linux, apple mac, android, ARM, X86 etc etc

If it was locked in be held hostage like Sonos.