Music serving
2014-01-30 00:26:07.672941+01 by Dan Lyke 0 comments
We have been using an old laptop with a local copy of our music and gmusicbrowser to drive our music listening. It sucks. The laptop takes up space, we haven't ever really figured out the queue vs playlist vs individual song paradigm (and would be much happier if there were still a supported XMMS package...), and... well...
My first generation iPad is getting long in the tooth, and Charlene asked "couldn't we just get you a new Android tablet and use that as a music interface?"
Welcome to walled-garden deferred-income-model app-store hell.
Options so far:
- DAAP is a protocol apparently reverse-engineered from something earlier versions of iTunes used. Later versions than my iPad apparently uses, though. Anyway, I installed "forked-daapd", can access my music with the Android DAAP app, the iPhone SimpleDaap app sees my music.
- DLNA is also a protocol that apparently many modern stereos see. Assorted people describe the various Linux servers as "sucks less", but MiniDLNA appears to be working. "Fusion Stream" on the iPad sees it.
- Subsonic looks like a free server, but the app access appears to be "pay ongoing license fees".
Will have to lay some of these apps on Charlene and see which one she thinks sucks least.