[ale] Music server options

[Pete Hardie]

Thanks!
This is the same as squeezebox, et al?

On Thu, Jan 2, 2020 at 6:42 PM Solomon Peachy <pizza at shaftnet.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 02, 2020 at 05:20:10PM -0500, Pete Hardie via Ale wrote:
> > I've found several for remote control of music playing on a single
> machine
> > (mopidy, in prep for a RPi adjunct to my home stereo), and the various
> > media servers (Plex, Kodi, etc) but I do not see where those can stream
> to
> > generic devices - they seem to require a mobile app on the client end,
> > which is not what I want; although I may simply be misunderstanding their
> > documentation?
>
> There's really only one choice: Logitech Media Server.
>
> Originally written to serve to dedicated hardware (which one can still
> find on ebay if so predisposed) but the server software itself is Free
> Software written in perl, and it integrates into various streaming
> services, podcasts, and online radio stations.  There are native
> (third-party) clients for iOS and Android, and generic Free Software
> clients you can run on Linux and Windows. There's also purpose-built
> plug-n-play Raspberry Pi images (PiCorePlayer) with the software on it,
> even supporting external DACs and whatnot for much better sound quality.
>
> (It also supports UPnP renderers and servers!)
>
> The dedicated hardware is long since EOL'd, but Logitech is still paying
> someone to maintain the server software, but even if that goes away it's
> still fully Free Software and thus will presumably be usable forever.
>
> (I've been running it since back in the 2003 timeframe, when it was
>  still called the SLiMP3 server by an outfit called Slim Devices)
>
> Google can tell you how to get started, but I recommend going with the
> latest nightly build instead one of the relatively old releases.  I'll
> be glad to help (off-list) if you need it.
>
>  - Solomon
> --
> Solomon Peachy                         pizza at shaftnet dot org
> High Springs, FL                          ^^ (email/xmpp) ^^
> Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur.
>


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