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If your father has somewhat fast, always-on internet you just build him a personal streamer box using a single-board computer (RPi etc) and an external drive. P
by Yetanfou 6y ago
If your father has somewhat fast, always-on internet you just build him a personal streamer box using a single-board computer (RPi etc) and an external drive. Put something like Airsonic on it and he can listen to his music, netcasts, audio books and internet radio stations anywhere he wants. Hook it up to his stereo - him being in his 70's he might still have one - and he can use it as a jukebox, playing through the speakers without having to fiddle with Bluetooth.
- WalterBright 6y ago> Hook it up to his stereo - him being in his 70's he might still have one - and he can use it as a jukebox, playing through the speakers without having to fiddle with Bluetooth. Haha, I still have my stereo from 1980 or so, run it all day every day. Only these days, I drive it with a Grace Digital media player that sucks the files off of the desktop through the wired LAN. I don't play directly from my desktop because I strongly dislike the bleeps and bloops from the computer, and those stupid autoplay websites. Easier to just disable the sound from the computer. The computer stereo output also underlays an extremely annoying 60 cycle hum. The sound quality from the computer DAC is horrible. Nice to use a real stereo (Carver amp and preamp for the win!).
- Yetanfou 6y agoI have a number of them, strewn around the house, connected to USB DACs which are hooked up to the server. On that server I run mpd which is controlled through either ncmpc in a terminal session, MALP on mobile. The server also runs Airsonic since that is more efficient for remote streaming than mpd+icecast. No bleeps or bloops since the USB DACs are only used for audio streaming and also because they're on a server which doesn't produce any bleeps or bloops to begin with.