An aquantance of mine has a CD collection and wants to rip it. They don’t want to stream it over a server but rather store it, say, on a hard drive connected directly to their speakers/receiver.
While they **don’t want to stream ** it wirelessly to/from their phone, they do want to control selection/playback.
Kind of like a remote controlled jukebox or, well, a really big CD player.
I am thinking there’s probably some raspberry pi project to play on-device music library that has a remote control library plug-in over LAN. I’d also like there to be a backup option, like a Pi GUI so they could see their library on the TV.
I’m envisioning an interface similar to the retro game players or kodi.
Does this exist?
Don’t bother ripping. Just buy a 300 cd changer
Cathode ray dude did a great video on this the 90s were a magical time. There’s also a dvd version iirc
FYI ripping wise, FLAC is the way to go.
And there are guides to using EAC and similar ripping software to get perfect rips.
Well worth the effort to do it once and perfectly.
Yeah! Did that once, many years back. took a couple weeks. Used a ripper program that went out on the net and got all the metadata, saved to a HD (now on the third one). Put the CDs in Logic cases (no-wear), recycled the jewelboxes.
Over time, started to drop album folders into VLC, save the playlists, at ur fingertips.
Volumio, moode, pijukebox (possibly dead), runeaudio… There are a ton of options.
… Various subsonic servers (and client combo) with jukebox mode (like Gonic), good old reliable MPD, mopidy…
So many projects!
On my desktop I do this with quodlibet alongside the KDE connect applet + KDE connect android app, which lets the phone control media players on the desktop. You probably don’t want to run a full desktop environment just for this, but it’s a good option if you already have a desktop PC with decent speakers.
Mentioning it just in case, because it works for me. If you’re looking for a purely headless server there are other good suggestions in this thread.
Yes, it’s called a server.
Some NAS devices support being media servers. I’m sure Synology does. That would probably be the least effort to manage.
Or you could build your own and run software you choose: https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted?tab=readme-ov-file#media-streaming---audio-streaming
I think a server is for streaming the audio to different devices. They don’t want to stream from phone to the player (or the other way around). They just want to be able to browse library and control playback from their phone.
It’s still a server. A file server in this case.
You could run Kodi, Emby, or Plex and get local access through DLNA access.
I have a QNAP RAID set up that Emby catalogs and handles access for. An Emby app on my LG TV, and a Roku on other TVs. Some RAID systems will just plug into your network and allow you to install apps on them directly.
Another option is to use MediaMonkey to catalog and provide access. They even have an Android app.
Lastly, regular external HDD are meant for occasional access, not continuous work. Most have a duty cycle of about 25%, meaning they should only be run about that amount of time before dying. This is why I went with NAS HDDs. If you have the money, go with an expandable RAID. Once you start using that capacity, you’ll find you want more.
People will moan and groan because paid software and not opensource but there is nothing even close to Roon for doing this. https://roon.app/en/
