Squeezebox replacement...

[ErikS]

Howdy all!

I'm currently using a number of Squeezeboxes for various rooms in my home. I have a LMS running on a Synology NAS.
We have a rather large local music collection ( ~4 TB) residing on the NAS. It's mostly hard to find stuff not available on streaming services (oldest son is an aficionado). We also use Tidal.
Now MySqueezebox.com is shutting down which means that we cannot use Tidal anymore (apparently MSB is needed to log onto Tidal) which
means that I need a new streamer. My requirements so far:
- No DAC needed. The various installations already have DAC:s and amplifiers (and loudspeaker)
- Tidal support
- UPnP/DLNA support

I've found iFi Zen Stream that seems to fulfil my requirements but sadly my wife went totally bananas at the design (and it is a bit expensive as I need to buy 4).
I really would like some suggestions here as I'm totally new to this.
I've been using Squeezebox since they were introduced.

 

[staticV3]

Take a look at the WiiM Mini.

 

[Vincent Kars]

As you do have the DAC's and Synology can act as a UPnP server, have a look at the WiiM

 

[ErikS]

Thanks all for the suggestion. I ended up with Audio Pro Link 2.
Btw, I did try to use BubbleUPnP and the existing squeezeboxes as renderer but that project failed the control point.

 

[Smitty2k1]

Take a look at the WiiM Mini.

Wiim Mini doesn't have native LMS support like the Pro and Pro Plus as far as I'm aware. When I used my mini with LMS I had to do "stream mode" or something and it limited some functionality (e.g. replaygain) but it did "work".

Hopefully Wiim adds that functionality to the Mini, which would allow it to replace a RaspberryPi as a LMS player IMO.

 

[direwolf08]

Wiim Mini doesn't have native LMS support like the Pro and Pro Plus as far as I'm aware. When I used my mini with LMS I had to do "stream mode" or something and it limited some functionality (e.g. replaygain) but it did "work".

Hopefully Wiim adds that functionality to the Mini, which would allow it to replace a RaspberryPi as a LMS player IMO.

My Wiim Mini’s show up as players in LMS once I installed the UPnP/DLNA Bridge plugin. Seems to work pretty well.

 

[ModelCitizen]

A Squeezebox Tidal app is under development so you'll not need to dump your Squeezeboxes!
See the forums for more info: https://forums.slimdevices.com

You might be interested in this ebay item too (it's a bit rare): https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/235458971776