Graphics, sound and multimedia • Re: RPi OS music player

Well you could always role you own. It's not that hard:

• RPiOS lite (or Desktop with auto login to the desktop disabled)
• MPD for local playback or shairportsync (or whatever it has been forked/renamed as) for multiroom synced audio
• Your choice of MPD client running or your choice of device for control.
• miniDLNA for smart devices
• Samba if you want file access to down/up load files.

You'd probably lack some of the fancy bits you'd get with a paid for Volumio or Plex box but you get what you pay for

@thagrol Are there any tutorials for carrying out an installation as you recommended ?

First test results with an RPi5:

The volume is powered by Debian 10 Buster which has not been patched for security for 2 years ;-( Only the kernel still seems to be updated.

https://www.debian.org/releases/buster/index.fr.html

GentooPlayer is a headache to configure and use, it seems we have to compile certain software ourselves and what's more it's a 100% paid OS ;-(

So many disappointments so far !!!

Regards

Statistics: Posted by phil995511 — Thu Feb 29, 2024 12:37 pm

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