http://www.suppertime.co.uk/blogmywiki/2015/07/music-server/ reading, writing, coding, making Tue, 24 Oct 2023 13:43:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 http://www.suppertime.co.uk/blogmywiki/2015/07/music-server/#comment-84915 Derry Mon, 14 Sep 2015 21:57:02 +0000 http://www.suppertime.co.uk/blogmywiki/?p=1991#comment-84915 Thanks for sharing the experience! I'm with you on this. Had miniDLNA running for around a year on a pi, very stable and well-behaved, but no simple web play interface from a linux machine, at least that I was happy with. So tried Volumio, found that it was running minidlna in the background as well as a web interface and thought that was a good idea. But .. maybe too much for the old b+ pi and interface was too unstable and the minidlna is disabled by default apparently for performance issues, so will leave that mature a while yet. So tried Runeaudio, certainly was more solid and reliable, and good interface, easy to add web radio and local USB's ... but no dlna server. Not sure I am competent enough to add minidlna to it and it would still stand a chance of hitting performance issues. I was impressed with Rune as a stand-alone audio system though. So dug out the minidlna SD card and put that back in the Pi and have that running again and yes I also had to clean all the track names too when I originally set it up. So currently looks like I will use 2 Pi's, one for Rune as a main player and one for minidlna as a server, and a couple of old Android phones used as dlna clients playing out to amplifiers about the place. That will give me a good capability at a pretty low cost. And of course the Dansettes. All that said I only have great thanks for all the folks who do the coding and sharing of all this stuff ! Thanks for sharing the experience! I’m with you on this. Had miniDLNA running for around a year on a pi, very stable and well-behaved, but no simple web play interface from a linux machine, at least that I was happy with. So tried Volumio, found that it was running minidlna in the background as well as a web interface and thought that was a good idea. But .. maybe too much for the old b+ pi and interface was too unstable and the minidlna is disabled by default apparently for performance issues, so will leave that mature a while yet. So tried Runeaudio, certainly was more solid and reliable, and good interface, easy to add web radio and local USB’s … but no dlna server. Not sure I am competent enough to add minidlna to it and it would still stand a chance of hitting performance issues. I was impressed with Rune as a stand-alone audio system though.
So dug out the minidlna SD card and put that back in the Pi and have that running again and yes I also had to clean all the track names too when I originally set it up.
So currently looks like I will use 2 Pi’s, one for Rune as a main player and one for minidlna as a server, and a couple of old Android phones used as dlna clients playing out to amplifiers about the place. That will give me a good capability at a pretty low cost. And of course the Dansettes.
All that said I only have great thanks for all the folks who do the coding and sharing of all this stuff !

]]> http://www.suppertime.co.uk/blogmywiki/2015/07/music-server/#comment-83188 Frank W W Bath Sat, 25 Jul 2015 17:45:59 +0000 http://www.suppertime.co.uk/blogmywiki/?p=1991#comment-83188 Well I didn't understand a word of that but it was a good read. My own solution to the problem - being the sole occupier - is to put the radio on in the lobby and doors open I can hear it in all three rooms in the flat. Mind you I love the synth riff in Are Friends Electric? More power to your ingenuity. Well I didn’t understand a word of that but it was a good read. My own solution to the problem – being the sole occupier – is to put the radio on in the lobby and doors open I can hear it in all three rooms in the flat. Mind you I love the synth riff in Are Friends Electric? More power to your ingenuity.

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