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No DLNA? How is one supposed to play music from a NAS?

viraptor 6y ago
This seems to be the goal: https://www.hifiberry.com/beocreate https://www.hifiberry.com/beocreate Which means - you're expected to plug it directly into (or build into) a speaker.
- jojobas 6y ago
  Regardless of what you plug it into, there has to be a way to play music from your home server. DLNA is pretty much the only open standard in existence to play music stored on one device on a second device, controlled by a third device.
  - globular-toast 6y ago
    Mount your music using NFS from first device to second device then use third device to control second device? What am I missing here?
    - jojobas 6y ago
      Note: they actually included DLNA in their build, so this is moot. DLNA is few notches below NFS in complexity. It has autodiscovery in the local network and optimized for library organization, control and streaming. Using NFS instead of DLNA is much like what Russians call "sunset by hand".
      - globular-toast 6y ago
        Autodiscovery and NFS work fine together. My Kodi box found my NFS exports. I added them. I control Kodi using my phone.
- MikusR 6y ago
  Yes that's how dlna works.
  - deleted 6y ago
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  - viraptor 6y ago
    Dlna can be used in different places here. You could also drive it as a Bluetooth sink from another Dlna server. Or use it as a spotify mode. It's not obvious.
hanklazard 6y ago
HiFiBerry makes some inexpensive little amps, DACs, etc that mount on top of a raspi and allow you to drive a pair of speakers (1). I have 4 or 5 of these and I’m a fan. I’m looking at this hifiberryOS as a possible replacement for volumio with a snapcast server for whole house sync’d audio (2). Looks pretty full-featured but I haven’t tried it out yet. Maybe others know of good music software for the pi or have experience with this? 1. https://www.hifiberry.com/shop/ https://www.hifiberry.com/shop/ 2. https://volumio.org/ https://volumio.org/
- dflock 6y ago
  The general consensus seems to be the http://moodeaudio.org http://moodeaudio.org is quite a bit better than volumio.
  - hanklazard 6y ago
    This comment section was my first introduction to it ... I'm definitely going to give it a spin, thanks!
davewongillies 6y ago
There is support for it according to the changelog: https://github.com/hifiberry/hifiberry-os/blob/master/Changelog#L76 https://github.com/hifiberry/hifiberry-os/blob/master/Change... Although it does seem to be broken currently https://github.com/hifiberry/hifiberry-os/issues/156 https://github.com/hifiberry/hifiberry-os/issues/156
mongol 6y ago
You can do it via snapcast. I have basically that setup. A Raspberry Pi that just has a snapcast client. Then there is a snapcast server with MPD, DLNA server etc, that streams via snapcast. But given that they have other direct-playing applications it is a strange omission.
mnd999 6y ago
Logitech Media Server or Roon are their recommendations. I’d go with LMS and iPeng as a remote and you have Sonos-like multi room audio controllable from your phone.

This seems to be the goal: https://www.hifiberry.com/beocreate https://www.hifiberry.com/beocreate Which means - you're expected to plug it directly into (or build into) a speaker.

jojobas 6y ago
Regardless of what you plug it into, there has to be a way to play music from your home server. DLNA is pretty much the only open standard in existence to play music stored on one device on a second device, controlled by a third device.
- globular-toast 6y ago
  Mount your music using NFS from first device to second device then use third device to control second device? What am I missing here?
  - jojobas 6y ago
    Note: they actually included DLNA in their build, so this is moot. DLNA is few notches below NFS in complexity. It has autodiscovery in the local network and optimized for library organization, control and streaming. Using NFS instead of DLNA is much like what Russians call "sunset by hand".
    - globular-toast 6y ago
      Autodiscovery and NFS work fine together. My Kodi box found my NFS exports. I added them. I control Kodi using my phone.
MikusR 6y ago
Yes that's how dlna works.
- deleted 6y ago
  [deleted]
- viraptor 6y ago
  Dlna can be used in different places here. You could also drive it as a Bluetooth sink from another Dlna server. Or use it as a spotify mode. It's not obvious.

hanklazard 6y ago

HiFiBerry makes some inexpensive little amps, DACs, etc that mount on top of a raspi and allow you to drive a pair of speakers (1). I have 4 or 5 of these and I’m a fan. I’m looking at this hifiberryOS as a possible replacement for volumio with a snapcast server for whole house sync’d audio (2). Looks pretty full-featured but I haven’t tried it out yet. Maybe others know of good music software for the pi or have experience with this? 1. https://www.hifiberry.com/shop/ https://www.hifiberry.com/shop/ 2. https://volumio.org/ https://volumio.org/

dflock 6y ago
The general consensus seems to be the http://moodeaudio.org http://moodeaudio.org is quite a bit better than volumio.
- hanklazard 6y ago
  This comment section was my first introduction to it ... I'm definitely going to give it a spin, thanks!

davewongillies 6y ago

There is support for it according to the changelog: https://github.com/hifiberry/hifiberry-os/blob/master/Changelog#L76 https://github.com/hifiberry/hifiberry-os/blob/master/Change... Although it does seem to be broken currently https://github.com/hifiberry/hifiberry-os/issues/156 https://github.com/hifiberry/hifiberry-os/issues/156

mongol 6y ago

You can do it via snapcast. I have basically that setup. A Raspberry Pi that just has a snapcast client. Then there is a snapcast server with MPD, DLNA server etc, that streams via snapcast. But given that they have other direct-playing applications it is a strange omission.

mnd999 6y ago

Logitech Media Server or Roon are their recommendations. I’d go with LMS and iPeng as a remote and you have Sonos-like multi room audio controllable from your phone.