It can stream to both software and hardware receivers, including the various Squeezebox models, as well as any media player capable of playing MP3 streams. It supports audio formats including MP3, FLAC, WAV, Ogg, Opus, and AAC, as well as transcoding. The software is designed for streaming music over a network, allowing users to play their music collections from virtually anywhere there is an Internet connection. My goal is to run multiple Pis as Squeezeboxes, synchronized throughout my castle.Logitech Media Server (formerly SlimServer, SqueezeCenter and Squeezebox Server) is a streaming audio server supported by Logitech (formerly Slim Devices), developed in particular to support their Squeezebox range of digital audio receivers.
So far, my Pi is a NAS, a backup server, web server, and music server.Īnd AllThingsPi said that he also installed SqueezeLite on the same Pi so that it was serving the client installed on the same Pi. The installation includes initiating it, so I went to and there it was, running fine. Then install it: $ sudo dpkg -i logitechmediaserver_all.deb $ wget -O logitechmediaserver_all.deb $(wget -q -O - " version=8.3.0&revision=1&geturl=1&os=deb") Go to the Logitech Downloads to find the latest version, and add that version to the download link: # get the latest nightly build (from ): $ sudo apt-get install -y libsox-fmt-all libflac-dev libfaad2 libmad0įor the latest version, I had to install additional packages, so I fixed the errors using: $ sudo apt -fix-broken install The following installs SOX libraries, and what looks like FLAC support – which I’ll need: # install some libs I followed the install directions, sort of, from AllThingsPi. Linux myservername 4.1.19+ #858 Tue Mar 15 15:52: armv6l GNU/Linux How to Install PRETTY_NAME="Raspbian GNU/Linux 7 (wheezy)" I installed it on a Raspberry Pi B (the original) running Debian Wheezy. Several different sites suggested a long and difficult installation process. Before installing it, I did a lot of reading about how hard it is to install.