[ale] Music server options

[Solomon Peachy]

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
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Solomon Peachy			       pizza at shaftnet dot org
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