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I love to see some progress in this space! I was curious about using e.g. Raspberry Pis or old Android devices as replacements for the now defunct Google Chrome

I love to see some progress in this space! I was curious about using e.g. Raspberry Pis or old Android devices as replacements for the now defunct Google Chromecast Audio, that is a set of linked devices connected to speakers throughout the house and all streaming from a single source that I can control from my phone or PC. Doing this seemed to be unreasonably difficult. The closest thing to a solution I identified was using Mopidy along with Icecast, where Mopidy is the control plane and Icecast is the audio sink, and all client devices simply permanently connected to the shoutcast stream. This "worked" but it is very frustrating for a simple use case. Mopidy used to be a MPD server implementation, but it has deprecated that in favor of its own API, and the client options were very limited. And nevermind video, this was just audio... Anyway, I feel like NymphCast is a very welcome development, and I really hope that Maya will continue to work on it.

hackkitten 7y ago
Thank you for the feedback :) I have no plans to stop working on this project any time soon. Having it work as a ChromeCast Audio replacement was one of my initial thoughts back in 2019, and while the scope has slightly increased, that initial goal hasn't been altered. After some feedback, I am prioritising the implementing of multi-target streaming (multiple speakers/TVs) so that this will exist (in some form) in the first release. Another of the goals is for the whole system to be dead-simple to setup and use. Heavens know I have wasted enough of my life trying to make half-broken projects somewhat do what they were supposed to do. I'd rather my own projects are not among those :) (I'm the NymphCast author)
kingosticks 7y ago
FYI Mopidy-MPD is not actually deprecated. It just doesn't have a maintainer that's interested in it. Some parts of the MPD protocol are a bad fit for streaming services where the 'media library' is essentially infinite so it's much harder to use performantly. That makes it really frustrating to develop with considering the Mopidy core API is available and far better suited.
- JeremyNT 7y ago
  That's good to know, I am still using the MPD support in Mopidy since I found more clients for it. Certainly as an end user the MPD ecosystem looks to be "stagnant" to put it generously, many of the clients I tried demonstrated curious behavior, and at least for audio there don't seem to be any obvious alternative standards emerging to replace it yet.

hackkitten 7y ago

Thank you for the feedback :) I have no plans to stop working on this project any time soon. Having it work as a ChromeCast Audio replacement was one of my initial thoughts back in 2019, and while the scope has slightly increased, that initial goal hasn't been altered. After some feedback, I am prioritising the implementing of multi-target streaming (multiple speakers/TVs) so that this will exist (in some form) in the first release. Another of the goals is for the whole system to be dead-simple to setup and use. Heavens know I have wasted enough of my life trying to make half-broken projects somewhat do what they were supposed to do. I'd rather my own projects are not among those :) (I'm the NymphCast author)

kingosticks 7y ago

FYI Mopidy-MPD is not actually deprecated. It just doesn't have a maintainer that's interested in it. Some parts of the MPD protocol are a bad fit for streaming services where the 'media library' is essentially infinite so it's much harder to use performantly. That makes it really frustrating to develop with considering the Mopidy core API is available and far better suited.

JeremyNT 7y ago
That's good to know, I am still using the MPD support in Mopidy since I found more clients for it. Certainly as an end user the MPD ecosystem looks to be "stagnant" to put it generously, many of the clients I tried demonstrated curious behavior, and at least for audio there don't seem to be any obvious alternative standards emerging to replace it yet.