The WM10 is currently set up via my home network. Better than AIRDREAM (no interruptions).
Excellent, I was hoping you had.
Odd that Micromega chose to have the default setting for the WM-10 as AIRDREAM, considering the extra processing stress that would place on the WM-10 functioning as a wireless access point and especially as its main purpose is supposed to be to stream & play high quality audio with the least fuss as possible. Small wonder you were getting audio interruptions typical of wireless network dropouts, doubtless caused by the WM-10 overcome by having to do doing both jobs. Can't help thinking that Micromega have only added to the eccentric French technology stereotype.
I'm confused by the rest however... So, Rpi4 should have DietPi has an "OS" and then install LMS on the RPi4 and as an app on my Ipad?
Yes sorry for the confusion - distro is IT speak for the Linux OS, which typically comes as a tailored software
distributi
on (ie, bundle) to suit the hardware it's installed on. So DietPi, being a (Linux) distro,
is one of the operating systems for the Raspberry Pi.
DietPi is actually based on the popular Raspbian distro, which in turn is based on the Debian distro.
LMS is available for Debian Linux devices, which is why it can be installed on the RPi4 with DietPi as its OS.
and then install LMS on the RPi4 and as an app on my Ipad?
Also what does LMS do? Will it act like a remote for the music file on the HD connected to the RPi4?
LMS stands for the Logitech
Media Server - so is an application that serves/provides media, such as audio files, to streamers over the network. As a typical media server, LMS also has a music library catalogue function, so will be able to index your audio files according to the usual music categories, eg, album, artist, genre, etc - assuming your music files contains the category data.
Like I said, you can use
any web browser on the network, such as the Safari app on your iPad, to control the playback of a (Squeezebox) streamer connected to LMS. If you prefer not to use a web browser for control, there are also dedicated Squeezebox player controller apps available, such as the iPeng iPad/iPhone app (not free).
Don't forget
only Squeezebox type streamers can actually be connected to LMS and be controlled by it. The AirPlay Bridge LMS plugin component is what acts as the bridging go between - it's what the WM-10, as an AirPlay device, will really be connected to over the network.
The AirPlay Bridge automatically creates an internal private (Squeezebox) Squeezelite player application for the WM-10. So, LMS controls the playback of the internal Squeezelite player streaming the audio files from LMS and the AirPlay Bridge captures & sends the Squeezelite player's resulting audio output to the WM-10 via AirPlay.
If the audio file track being played by the internal Squeezelite player is CD-res, then the capture of its audio output is bit perfect; if the track is hi-res then the captured audio output is downsampled to CD-res for AirPlay by the AirPlay Bridge.
BTW, LMS is also available for Windows, as well as Mac and Linux devices - so my advice would be to test it out first installed on your Windows PC, if you can. It's very straight forward to install (& remove afterwards, should you wish to do so after you've finished testing). That way you'll see exactly what you are getting with LMS, before dealing with the extra complication required to get LMS working on the RPi4.
The latest LMS version 8.0 is available here, for all platforms:
Some Software Beta Downloads - Version 8.0
Once you've got LMS installed and running, you have to access its main configuration settings pages via a web browser in order to install & configure the AirPlay Bridge plugin for the WM-10.
I'd also advise installing Material Skin plugin, which provides a very decent user interface for LMS's web browser Squeezebox controller, so you don't have to use LMS's workmanlike stock Web Control controller webpage.