Hope you enjoy the descent into the LMS rabbit hole! Come see us over at the forums if you need any help ;)
Hope you enjoy the descent into the LMS rabbit hole! Come see us over at the forums if you need any help ;)
LMS would fit the bill perfectly. LMS, or Lyrion Music Server, formerly known as Logitech Media Server, is open source software that’s been given to the community by Logitech themselves. It used to be used to stream music from your computer to Squeezebox devices, but now you can stream it to nearly any computer, including…
Raspberry pis! By using piCorePlayer, you can turn your pi into a server for LMS, a player, or both at the same time!
I’ve been using LMS for years and can’t praise it enough. I’ve got whole house audio. My server runs on a Pi 4 and streams music from my NAS, but you can even stream it from a connected drive, Spotify, Deezer, or Qobuz!
Also, don’t fret about LMS’s…dated…UI. There’s robust themes out there, including the legendary Material Skin https://github.com/CDrummond/lms-material
Since you can use a Pi, you can connect any amp and speakers to it. Hifiberry makes great DACs that you could use for a cleaner sound, but any modern USB DAC would do well IMO.
You can still get Squeezeboxes cheaply on eBay, BTW. The Squeezebox Boom and Radio both are all-in-one WiFi enabled devices that can connect to your LMS server and stream music. Their sound quality is excellent, even for 10+ year old hardware.
If you have any questions, hit me up or check out the forums: https://forums.slimdevices.com/
Deemix has a container that has a WEB UI
This is exciting! Can’t wait to kill my install by trying to upgrade!
I’m a huge fan of LMS (Lyrion Music Server, formerly Logitech Media Server, formerly Slimserver, formerly…)
Fantastic piece of software. The server can run on a first gen Raspberry Pi and handle 100k+ tracks like it’s nobody’s business
It’s fantastic. Can’t recommend it enough. The best part for me is that it’s on Fdroid
? I’ve got IPTV working fine on Libreelec (Linux) on 20.3
I’m using them inside. I record to microsd on each camera, and use homeassistant to view them. I’m eventually going to build a NVR for them
I’m using Reolink E1 Zoom cameras. My router’s firewall keeps them offline, and I manage everything through HomeAssistant. Very happy with my experience on a budget
PiCorePlayer and LMS are the way.
36 TB usable space on my NAS… Music doesn’t even make a dent
I’m an old man. “Back in my day”, we heard by word of mouth, the radio, browsing at music shops, etc.
We can still do that in the digital age. When someone posts a random song, anywhere, check it out. Try checking out internet radio of genres you like (I’m finding a lot of Classical this way currently). Check out Bandcamp and IRL music store every once in a while just see what calls to you. Sometimes, let the cool album art guide you ;)
Depends. I tend to listen to whole albums, so I let LMS give me a random album if I wanna hear something new. If I’m in the mood for whatever, I do random mixes in LMS. LMS also has a music similarity feature (with plugins) that will play related songs after an album, too, so that also helps me find new stuff that sounds like stuff I already like
If I wanna listen to something and I don’t know what, I just let LMS give me a random album and see what I get!
You pretty much calculated spot on! ;)
Storage is cheap, and music (even in FLAC format) is small. You can fit tens of thousands of songs into a terabyte.
I download anything and everything. An artist I enjoy? Entire discography. I’ve only heard one song? Entire discography–there may be more I might enjoy! An artist in a genre I like but I’ve never heard? Entire discography.
I’m at over 125k songs, and I still feel like my collection is a sliver. I eventually want to reach 1m songs and truly become my own Spotify. Finding songs I’ve never heard before and that I end up loving in my own collection is a joy I can’t describe.
Found one refurbished on eBay. I’ll report when I get it as to the quality
I’m replacing a dead Latitude currently, it was a fun ride, but I’d like to replace it with something else
Sonos users, come on over to Lyrion. The water’s open source, self hosted, and fine 😎