right now I’m trying a dedicated Jellyfin instance for audio only (bought the lifetime emby subscription before i learned about jellyfin, so video is elsewhere) but having trouble finding a good client that could run on the guts of an old autonomic MMS2A. That device has an analog and digital output, which with the normal OS treated as two separate sources. is that something anyone else has tinkered with? the original plan was to just run a kodi instance with the jellyfin addon, but im not sure if this has the horsepower to run kodi, and certainly not two at once! (4gb of ram max for this beast.

i need it to be remotely controllable, it’d be cool to have easy playlist management/backup that other devices could see, and potentially an android client if possible?

I’ve dabbled with the “____sonic” ecosystem back before i was really good at linux, and struggled a bunch, before giving up without anything real to show for it.

just curious if anyone else has been down this road successfully!

thanks for this community, my scrolling stops INSTANTLY when i see a post from here.

(oh my music server is a truenas SMB share, hosted in a proxmox vm! not opposed to putting a big SSD in this device if local music would make things easier)

  • mat@linux.communityEnglish
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    4 minutes ago

    I currently host Navidrome, which has an okay web player. On Android I use “Tempo” (though it is unmaintained) to connect to it, and on Linux I use Tauon (though it has very poor playback). I could not find a native Linux client that is not buggy unfortunately, so I’m also on the lookout for better solutions! I’m not familiar with the device you are talking about but every client I tried supports MPRIS, which are the regular media controls that can be used via the playerctl command, so you should be able to hook things up that way.

  • melroy@kbin.melroy.org
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    45 minutes ago

    I just torrent the sht out of it. And put it on a USB stick. And plug it into my car. That’s it.

  • Korhaka@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    1 hour ago

    I like using rygel currently, just run it by command line and media folders are available over the network. Any device with VLC can see it on the network and play.

  • PieMePlenty@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    2 hours ago

    Music folder on a network share. Navidrome and plex and jellyfin all have access to that library, then pick your poison for the client app. Plex is also DLNA enabled so my dumber AVR can access it too. I mostly use tempo app on android though. I’m a pinch, I can use navidromes web UI player to listen. The plex and jellyfin are mainly just a backup and overkill cause I can’t make up my mind.

  • Object@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    2·
    2 hours ago

    Why do I see no mentions of Ampache here? From what I found, it was the only program except Navidrome to support nested smart playlist, and Ampache has the editor directly in the web interface.

    Anyways, I host mine too! Over 2TB of music files on my server, and it runs pretty well.

  • 4k93n2@lemmy.zipEnglish
    2·
    4 hours ago

    after using jellyfin and emby for a long while ive gone back to basics, just local mp3s synced between devices using syncthing

    something like KDE Connect might work for remote control as long as you are able to install it on both devices

  • truxnell@aussie.zoneEnglish
    14·
    7 hours ago

    Navidrome server, symfonium on android is amazing. I also use maloja and multi-scrobbler to caoture plays from multiple sources and keep a in-house record of my plays.

  • ari_verse@lemmy.caEnglish
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    7 hours ago

    My use case: collection based on single-flac + cuesheets, thousands, many of which are HD. Setup: all the music is in an NFS share in my HTPC, which also runs Kodi (flatpak) for both video and audio media. That machine is connected to my main audio setup via USB DAC.

    The Kodi music DB is hosted externally in mariaDB in the same server. I use 2 headless Kodi (OSMC) clients with HiFiBerry DACs as streamers around the house, using the same DB/media. Lastly I also have an Nvidia Shield running Kodi also exposing the same collection/DB.

    Over the years I have tested many alternatives, including navidrome, volumio, and others, but they all struggle handling my music collection, choke processing cuesheets or don’t even support them, or can’t handle NFS reliably or at all, or can’t process 24 bit content etc.

    I couldn’t find any solution nearly as reliable, performant or flexible as this one. I use this setup pretty much daily. With incremental improvements, it’s been running for more than 10 years.

    Each Kodi client can be managed via its web interface (a little dated but fully functional and reliable), amd via Android app (I use Yatse).

    The main server also exposes the music collection via DLNA.

    I looked at jellyfin/Plex in the past as well but for muy use case, it’s over-complicated and didn’t add value.

    • greylinux@lemm.eeEnglish
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      4 hours ago

      I use Music assistant , an add on for Home Assistant. All managed in the home assistant app and played through my sonos speakers. Its great

    • SidewaysHighways@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      2·
      6 hours ago

      i do love me some Kodi/libreELEC!

      how hard is it to stand up a headless kodi? this would still work with jellyfin with addon, but it might be REALLY FUN to install a kodi addon with no screen

      also i am having trouble hunting down what cuesheets means in this context?

      • ari_verse@lemmy.caEnglish
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        43 minutes ago

        For doing Kodi GUI setup changes in a headless setup in the RPis remotely, I use a VNC server installed in them that I start on-demand (when needed), e.g dispmanx. Needing this is a once-in-a-few-years type event, but yes you need this installed just in case.

      • 486@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        6 hours ago

        also i am having trouble hunting down what cuesheets means in this context?

        When you rip an audio CD you can either create one file for each track or you can rip the entire CD as one track and create a cue sheet file which is basically a text file describing where each track starts in that single audio file. This can be useful to have an exact copy of the CD without adding unintended gaps between tracks. It is primarily useful if you intend on recreating the actual audio CD at a later time from the ripped data. Most people don’t need this.

  • cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    6·
    6 hours ago

    I just keep all of my music in an NFS share on my NAS and play it with Rhythmbox or VLC. I keep a compressed copy on the SD card in my phone to listen to when I’m not home.