An aquantance of mine has a CD collection and wants to rip it. They don’t want to stream it over a server but rather store it, say, on a hard drive connected directly to their speakers/receiver.
While they **don’t want to stream ** it wirelessly to/from their phone, they do want to control selection/playback.
Kind of like a remote controlled jukebox or, well, a really big CD player.
I am thinking there’s probably some raspberry pi project to play on-device music library that has a remote control library plug-in over LAN. I’d also like there to be a backup option, like a Pi GUI so they could see their library on the TV.
I’m envisioning an interface similar to the retro game players or kodi.
Does this exist?
People will moan and groan because paid software and not opensource but there is nothing even close to Roon for doing this. https://roon.app/en/
This seems weird. They say they let you stream with Tidal and Qobuz, is that why it’s a monthly fee? I don’t really get how the pricing model fits the Roon software features.
I don’t mind paying for something but just seeing that its yet another subscription model thing makes me wretch.
(Hope I didn’t miss some fixed price info, I didn’t look that deep I admit…)
Yes, it’s called a server.
Some NAS devices support being media servers. I’m sure Synology does. That would probably be the least effort to manage.
Or you could build your own and run software you choose: https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted?tab=readme-ov-file#media-streaming---audio-streaming
I think a server is for streaming the audio to different devices. They don’t want to stream from phone to the player (or the other way around). They just want to be able to browse library and control playback from their phone.
You could run Kodi, Emby, or Plex and get local access through DLNA access.
I have a QNAP RAID set up that Emby catalogs and handles access for. An Emby app on my LG TV, and a Roku on other TVs. Some RAID systems will just plug into your network and allow you to install apps on them directly.
Another option is to use MediaMonkey to catalog and provide access. They even have an Android app.
Lastly, regular external HDD are meant for occasional access, not continuous work. Most have a duty cycle of about 25%, meaning they should only be run about that amount of time before dying. This is why I went with NAS HDDs. If you have the money, go with an expandable RAID. Once you start using that capacity, you’ll find you want more.
Don’t bother ripping. Just buy a 300 cd changer
I had one from Sony a long time ago. It even had a cable you could attach between two of 'em (600 CDs!) so that it could seamlessly start playing another track while loading the next song. I dropped it during a move and the next time I opened the door, it spit gears at me. I had intended to fix it some day, but started watching Hoarders and decided it wasn’t worth it.
I still habe this in my project todo list: https://github.com/MiczFlor/RPi-Jukebox-RFID
