(14-Sep-2021, 05:43 AM)Coacharnold Wrote: If I'm running snale oil - headless with LMS and squeezeplayer. Is there a way to output the track information (artist title, artwork.) to a small HDMI monitor?There is no output to display this information, although we can easily write a simple program to do so. To display this to a HDMI monitor will involve:
1. Running the app graphically (X or Wayland), this consumes additional resources, which could otherwise be left idle (or for music playback
2. If we run the app in console (text), it will increase the latency of the computer.
There is just no benefits to do this, hence why this wasn't implemented.
However, I can access my Snakeoil PC wirelessly over Wifi. And I use a tablet/mobile device and connect wirelessly to the LMS, and from there display artist, title and artwork. This is the best solution overall IMO as it incurs very little load on the computer. (My wireless network is actually on a different network, overall I don't think this makes any audio difference but since I set it up this way, I have never changed it).
Also disabled my text console to improve latency.