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how are my fellow peeps hosting your music collection these days? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by SidewaysHighways@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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right now I'm trying a dedicated Jellyfin instance for audio only (bought the lifetime emby subscription before i learned about jellyfin, so video is elsewhere) but having trouble finding a good client that could run on the guts of an old autonomic MMS2A. That device has an analog and digital output, which with the normal OS treated as two separate sources. is that something anyone else has tinkered with? the original plan was to just run a kodi instance with the jellyfin addon, but im not sure if this has the horsepower to run kodi, and certainly not two at once! (4gb of ram max for this beast.

i need it to be remotely controllable, it'd be cool to have easy playlist management/backup that other devices could see, and potentially an android client if possible?

I've dabbled with the "____sonic" ecosystem back before i was really good at linux, and struggled a bunch, before giving up without anything real to show for it.

just curious if anyone else has been down this road successfully!

thanks for this community, my scrolling stops INSTANTLY when i see a post from here.

(oh my music server is a truenas SMB share, hosted in a proxmox vm! not opposed to putting a big SSD in this device if local music would make things easier)

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[+] greylinux@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

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[–] SidewaysHighways@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

when i first saw and played with music assistant i was absolutely amazed for a bit. the ability to sling tunes to any device that can be seen on the network with all metadata available on a home assistant (adjacent) dashboard? sign me up! i was thrilled at the audiobook/podcast support as well. able to tie in tidal and local music with announcement capabilities.. just awesome!

i can't remember the exact reason why but it didn't quite work perfectly for me, as far as "checking all the boxes"

the companion app wasn't quite designed to be a music source and would stop playing if screen was locked for a few seconds? on webpage it is like, constantly spamming KDE connect to continue playing, even when sending to another device.

i am following music assistant for sure though!

[–] HiTekRedNek@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My favorite use case for MASS is my desktop PC, in our bedroom, has a decent 5.1 sound system, and is running squeezelite.

I have an alarm automation that starts playing from the random 500 playlist.

When my phone connects to my car's Bluetooth, it transfers the queue to my phone, which is running snapcast on a VPN.

When my phone disconnects from my Bluetooth, and I am at home, it transfers any queue from my phone back to my desktop.

If I'm not at home it just stops the music, otherwise it'll start playing through the phone speakers.

While at work, I'll use Ultrasonic rather than music assistant, because my data inside my work area is sporadic, and not conducive to a good musical experience with how MASS streams.

[–] SidewaysHighways@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

holy shit this is the kind of stuff that piques my interest! Flawless location hopping eh? is this descended from the old Logitech platform? will CERTAINLY look into this

[–] HiTekRedNek@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

That I'm not sure of, I know MASS uses snapcast internally, and can stream to LMS/squeezelite players.

I also wouldn't call it 100% flawless, but it works well enough for me.

[–] ari_verse@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

This project shows a lot of promise and I am following it. I run HomeAssistant as well in my home server. At this time though (or:last time I checked) it didn't support cuesheets at all, it fell a little short for my use case.