Introduction

In 2001 a company called Slim Devices started developing network music players called Squeezebox (SB). Logitech later bought the company out. I have two Squeezebox Radios.

Despite not selling the hardware since 2009, Logitech still runs the servers that allow the SB hardware to continue to work. Since the software is no longer being updated, external changes mean that some functionality has stopped working. In my case, the BBC have changed their live radio streaming (several times) and the built-in version no longer works.

Fortunately, Logitech also open-sourced their server software as Logitech Media Server (LMS) so that users can run their own local servers on PCs, Linux or NAS boxes, and install new plugins written by community members. There’s a BBC Sounds plugin developed by expectingtofly that supports the latest BBC streaming configuration.

I have a QNAP NAS that’s always on, so that seems the best place to run it.

Resources

BBC Sounds plugin discussion and wiki.

LMS in a Docker Container

Instructions here (QNAP community forum). Media server here.

Updating Plugins

Go to the local server page http://<QNAP IP address>:9000/settings/index.html and on the Plugins tab the plugin should be listed in an Update section. Select the checkbox, click Apply at the bottom of the page, and restart the server.