Hi, I am using the logitech media server and the available hard- and software players since years and for me it is the ultimate to listen to music at home and at work. The logitech media server software is written in perl, so it is running on many plattforms. There are linux packages for apt and rpm based systems available. The current stable release is 7.9.1 and downloads can be found here: http://downloads.slimdevices.com/nightly/?ver=7.9 The software is highly conffigurable and it can be extended by plugins for various music services, e.g. spotify, tidal, deezer, tunein. There are many other plugins, for example to get a system which is AirPlay ready, which can stream music from upnp servers, e.g. And of course music files, which are stored localy, can be played too. To play music, players have to connect to the logitechmedia server software. There were hardware players available, but since some years no new players are not longer produced by Logitech, but in different stores hardware players are still offered and e.g. on eBay you can get older players from other users. In adition to the hardware players, some software players are available. Ther is the piCore player, which can easily installed on a raspberry and for linux systems there is a software player called squeezelite. Also smartphones can be used as a player. If you have the server software installed you can do the configuration tasks via a webinterface and if a player is connected you can start to stream the music also via the webinterface or via different smartphone apps. For iOS devices iPeng is the best app to control the system. The webinterface is sometimes a bit tricky to handle, but there are different skins and the classic skin can easyly be used with Firefox or in most cases even with w3m on linux. iPeng, the iOS smartphone app, is fully accessible, I am in contact with the developer and he is taking care that the app can be used with VoiceOver without problems. At work on my linux laptop I am using the logitech media server software and squeezelite to listen to spotify and / or deezer with squeezelite, both installed on the same system. At home I have different hardware players and the server software is installed on my homeserver. There is a big helpfull community active around the logitech / slimdevices system, which can be reached via http://forums.slimdevices.com/ Many boards from the webforum are also synced to mailinglists. The lists can be found here: http://lists.slimdevices.com I hope, I was able to explain the logitech media server system and its possibilities in some short words. If something is not clear or if you have further questions, just ask. As said, for me this system is the most powerfull and most flexible music system I know and allthough no hardware players are produced anymore and Logitech has stopped to sell those players, the system is still alive and the community is still very active and keeps the system up and running. Cheers and all the best fro Munich, Christian -- Christian Schoepplein - <chris (at) schoeppi.net> - http://schoeppi.net _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list