So you would like to digitise your CD collection? (Part 3)

After configuring the sound system (So you would like to digitise your CD collection? (Part 1)) and digitizing the CDs (So you would like to digitise your CD collection? (Part 2)) the time of listening has arrived (well, you know, all the three steps are ocurring almost simultaneously in time: loooking for things, digitizing, listening to the music,... And, shit happens: my old turntable is broken now. It is not involved in the digital part, but it's part of the sound system).

Looking for info I discovered Logitech Media Server (or, as it is called nowadays Lyrion Music Server (LMS) as a a streaming audio server supported by the LMS community and formerly supported by Logitech, developed in particular to support their Squeezebox range of digital audio receivers.

It provides a web interface to your music collection and it can interact with some player. It can be hardware (as the previously named Squeezebox) or it can be software.
In my case I didn't have access to a hardware device (and I had no interest in getting one) so I decided to test some software. One of the recommended ones was Squeezelite and it was the one I tried.
It has a quite ok look and feel, and it can have access to the Lyrion Media Server and send the music to my DAC.

The LMS is useful for browsing your collection (it shows the pictures related to your disks if you have them, for example), selecting what to play and so on. I've found that they have what they call a material based look and feel that is nice to see. There are two points that are a bit annoying sometimes:

• When adding new recordings to your collection (or images, or categories) you need to manually rescan the collection (there is also a pluging that makes the work for you) and it can be slow, from time to time.
• Sometimes the LMS and squeezelite are not communicating well, so the former does not find the second one and some restarting (software or hardware) is needed.

In the following part we will talk about some ways to add information to your music files and some odd and ends.