On Tue, 27 Nov 2018 18:16:54 +0100, Newdo wrote:

> i am currently looking for an MP3 player to play music from a raspberry
> pi.
>
Why limit yourself to MP3? FLAC files give much better quality.

Several friends use the Logitech Media Server (LMS) on an RPi as theit
music indexing server, but I don't know what they use to play the tracks.
Get LMS here:

http://downloads.slimdevices.com/

I also use LMS to search, and catalog my music collection, but that on a
desktop PC running Fedora Linux and I use a Squeezebox Touch to play my
music and streamed Internet Radio through my Quad-based stereo system.

> After testing mopidy, which was fine but had trouble managing large
> libraries (50k titles) i am about to test the sql library addon.
>
To me keeping the library server and player functions separate makes morre
sense: this way you can have a decent librarian sitting over the music
collection and streaming it to the player(s) which can, in turn
concentrate in doing a good job of playing music.

Of course, ymmv

> Before going into the wrong direction i'd like to ask the community if
> there are any suggestions for my demands:
>
> - can handle large mp3 libraries
> - controlable via web interface by smartphone/tablet
> - local libary on disk
>
LMS does all this. You can control it directly from a web browser or from
the controls on your player(s). You can select and play tracks using
either interface but only the web browser can run maintenance tasks such
as cataloguing recently loaded albums.


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