Reinstalling LMS: How to keep preferences?

[ModelCitizen]

Hello.

I am reinstalling LMS from scratch. I am installing all the plugins I use from scratch too. I am also rescanning my whole music library from scratch.

How to I keep my settings and preferences, for LMS, my players and my plugins?

I still have my old installation

This is 8.1.1 on Windows 10 Pro 64 bit.

Thanks

[SlimChances]

https://forums.slimdevices.com/showt...160#post871160

[ModelCitizen]

https://forums.slimdevices.com/showt...160#post871160

Thanks. That is for a Mac though. I have no idea if it'd be the same for Windows 10. And does the server.prefs file include the config info (and service logins) for the plugins too?

[SlimChances]

I used it for Linux, should be the same for Win 10. Pref file has config settings. not sure about logs. Make sure you edit server.prefs file though as directed by Michael


EDIT: the original thread started by me years ago was about Linux migration of Pref folder https://forums.slimdevices.com/archi...p/t-92701.html
Note that Erland mentions copying his pref files also if you have Erland's plugins, although I don't think I have ever found that necessary

[gordonb3]

I think the UUID remark applies when you move the installation to a different machine as the client likely links this to a specific network location (IP/MAC) which would then be incorrect. i.e. no similar instruction exists for upgrading your version of LMS, which is effectively a re-install as well.

Note that the preferences folder might be (or rather: should be) in a different location than the application. Also a proper install/uninstall routine will not remove any files that were changed from original. I'm assuming this to be true for the Windows installer and so a re-install will come back with all your plugins still in place unless you manually clean those up. Assuming your current installation still functions you can find these locations in the `information` tab of `http://<server>:9000/settings`

[Man in a van]

@ModelCitize

On my Windows 10 Pro Desktop (64 bit) the files are stored here

C:\ProgramData\Squeezebox

You can make a copy of the folder

I'm pretty certain though, that if you just uninstall LMS this folder will remain (unless you use one of the uninstaller programs which "clean".

Even so, there should be the option to "keep" the folder

ronnie

I know that when I remove --purge LMS on my raspberrypi Desktop OS the equivilant folder is always left, and the option is offered to "keep" in piCorePlayer

[oyvindo]

Hello.

I am reinstalling LMS from scratch. I am installing all the plugins I use from scratch too. I am also rescanning my whole music library from scratch.

How to I keep my settings and preferences, for LMS, my players and my plugins?

I still have my old installation

This is 8.1.1 on Windows 10 Pro 64 bit.

Thanks

Start using Docker containers. Drop Windows and move to a Linux machine (or an RP 4).
With Docker you can install and re- install anything as many times as you wish, and you can keep a number of configurations to choose from.

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[ModelCitizen]

I've had various attempts with Squeezeserver and linux over the last two decades, none of them successful and all of which took up shed loads of my time. So I'm not going there.
Next step for me is likely to be with be Polyvector's DAC32 Gateway (and yes, I know it's Linux), when the price for 1tb SD cards comes down....

Anyway. I tried it by just copying over server.prefs and the castbridge and upnpbridge config files but it wasn't successful and led to a bit of a mess. Copying over the whole of C:\Program Data\Squeezebox was though and now I'm good to go.

Thanks.

[philippe_44]

I've had various attempts with Squeezeserver and linux over the last two decades, none of them successful and all of which took up shed loads of my time. So I'm not going there.
Next step for me is likely to be with be Polyvector's DAC32 Gateway (and yes, I know it's Linux), when the price for 1tb SD cards comes down....

Anyway. I tried so it by just copying over server.prefs and the castbridge and upnpbridge config files but it wasn't successful and led to a bit of a mess. Copying over the whole of C:\Program Data\Squeezebox was though and now I'm good to go.

Thanks.

What I always do is copying the prefs directory with a bit of tweaks on server.prefs

[slartibartfast]

I've had various attempts with Squeezeserver and linux over the last two decades, none of them successful and all of which took up shed loads of my time. So I'm not going there.
Next step for me is likely to be with be Polyvector's DAC32 Gateway (and yes, I know it's Linux), when the price for 1tb SD cards comes down....

Anyway. I tried it by just copying over server.prefs and the castbridge and upnpbridge config files but it wasn't successful and led to a bit of a mess. Copying over the whole of C:\Program Data\Squeezebox was though and now I'm good to go.

Thanks.

PiCorePlayer is straightforward enough.

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