We're pretty much locked into Logitech's Squeeze Play solution - chosen amongst the alternative a few years back.
Selection was based on a balance of cost, stability(slightly challenged at the time) and open source.
Over the years the stability and source of plugins (i.e. semi-recent YouTube and Spotify) have ratified my choice :)
The house has used a variety of hardware to run the server on over the years. Initially the QNAP 209 Pro (which is still running strong), then migrating to a Joggler as it was pretty clear that the one of the performance/stability issues I suffered from was due to the QNAP.
The actually music source files are still servered up over NFS from the QNAP, so I've basically just moved the server portion.
The Joggler was and still is a great multi-purpose server for everything, and thus it servered for quite a period as the LMS (Logitech Media Server) - even though I still prefer the SqueezeServer from the naming perspective :)
Now enter Raspberry Pi - from when the first one arrived early May, it became a nice low power alternative for LMS.
Not being the expert I need to be I couldn't compile up from the source at the time, so I had to park the idea for a while and off to focus on lighting OLA :)
Now Thomas over at SqueezePlug has made a fantastic image complete with setup tool, nfs support, squeezeplay support - basically everything needed - Thank Thomas.
Now our home has been running pretty much flawlessly for over a month.
The 'pretty much' is down to those end receivers that are on the wireless network - all my wired endpoints are great. Also internet radio is not perfect, but all internal server based much is fine.
Another Raspberry Pi success!
