Re: Suggestions for Squeezebox player replacement for a non-techie longtime SB user

GeeJay wrote: 
> I am not a techie.  Have no Linux knowledge at all.  Don’t have time to
> tinker, but figured I’d at least give a raspberry pi a shot while I own
> a workable SB Touch.  
> 
> After getting over the initial fear I bought a kit with a case, and
> located the instructions on this site for how to load squeezelite.  I
> can’t recall if it worked flawlessly the first time I turned it on, but
> I did get it to work. In the past 2-3 years since I bought it I may have
> have to reboot it twice.  It works flawlessly. 
> 
> As for multi-room, I decided to ditch the synchronized multi-SB setup I
> used to have and started buying Denon HEOS speakers and a Marantz
> HEOS-enabled network streamer. I was already going to upgrade my stereo
> so that money was going to be spent anyway.  Synchronization is much
> better than my old multi-SB network of players.  
> 
> The lesson here is don’t rule out the Pi if you can’t find something
> else that fits your needs.  The hardest part, frankly, is getting over
> the fear factor that you’re going to spend months having to figure out
> how to make it work when it really doesn’t take that long once you
> commit to it.

+1
I went through the same process with the Pi. And faced the same
trepidations. I bumbled my way through so happily that I now have three
Pi players in addition to my Boom. I could not be happier with them.

There is some assembly required and some relatively basic downloading
and configuring involved, but none require handyman or programming
skills. I got a little frustrated in the process, but members of this
forum helped walk me through the initial issues I was having.


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