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[CongoFather]

Thanks!  Excellent information.  Any tips about installing on a Mercury?  I assume you'd need the Raspberry Pi version

** First of all, you need belenaEtcher.exe . You can download it from https://github.com/balena-io
** Then download the latest Gentooplayer version(Raspberry 4B) from https://gentooplayers.com/Download_link/ . Keep in mind that it's not for free. You need to pay for a license key in order to activate it. I preferred lifetime license.
** Get a fast, reliable 32GB or 64GB SDCard.
** Connect the SDCard to you Windows PC by using an USB adapter or an USB Hub with SDCard slot. You can directly use you Windows PC's memory slot if it already supports it.
** Write and verify the GentoPlayerRpi4-64-8.30.img file to the SDCard by using belenaEtcher app.
** Connect your Mercury Streamer to the home network preferably by using Ethernet. Later on I advise you to disable WIFI etc.
** Remove the SDCard from your PC and insert it into SDCard slot of the Mercury streamer.
** Restart the Mercury Streamer. 
** Check its IP address from your router's admin page(there is probably a page which lists the connected devices).
** By using Chrome, Firefox or Edge browser, just visit http://IP_ADDRESS_OF_MERCURY:5000. For example , as I have already assigned static IP address for the streamer, I can always access to it just by typing http://192.168.1.63:5000 in my home network.

Then you'll start configuring Gentooplayer by using the web interface. It's an another long topic. There are a lot of optimization points and you can find the details at https://audiophilestyle.com/forums/topic...ntooplayer. It's a long thread ; just start reading beginning from the latest posts, in reverse order.
Once you have configured it, just follow the thread, make customizations if you wish and update the software for the newer versions. It's not hard to use it after the initial configuration.

When you start configuring the Gentooplayer operating system, I advise you to choose a real time , fast lightweight Kernel like 6.1.54-GentooPlayer-RT-ULTRA-EUP100-RCU-rt15+ to start with. Make the CPU and process optimizations under "System Expert-I" menu(You can see my CPU, Process optimizations and tweak settings at https://audiophilestyle.com/forums/topic...nt=1258348 and https://audiophilestyle.com/forums/topic...nt-1257739). You can disable the softwares that you do not use or you can uninstall them directly. Do not forget to modify the tweaks under "System Congfig Advanced" menu. As a last step, run the whole operating system directly on RAM(under RamSystem menu) after you are sure that everything is working as you expect.

You can use LMS as a player , SqueezeLite-R2 on it. You can also install Roon Client on it and control it by using Roon UI(The server/Core app) on your Windows PC or another X86 machine etc. However, I prefer using Euphony OS(https://euphony-audio.com/) which is running directly on the RAM of another X86 Mac Mini. It is connected to Mercury Streamer over fiberoptical network on which Gentooplayer is run(directly on RAM) by using MPD, UpmpdCli protocols.