Summary first - I’m looking for software to use for web-controlled music playback. Main requirement is playback via a DAC on the hosting device and a half-decent UI for it (though streaming would be nice…).
Hardware-wise, I’ve currently got a Pi Zero W paired with a HiFiBerry DAC+ Zero, which has been fine for me quality-wise, routed as an aux input to an old HiFi. That, plus plenty of space elsewhere to host split apps - currently running Emby as a main streaming host for other media, and the media is just on a NAS pulling over NFS.
I’ve been using Volumio for a while, but have been frustrated with a few things (UI, playlist management, etc) so I’m looking for a change. Streaming from Emby/Jellyfin via DLNA looks like it might be a decent fallback, but I’m wondering if there are any nicer ways to handle it.
Any ideas? Open to switching a few bits of infrastructure around, of course :)
Hmm… what’s your experience with running Mopidy standlone? What client are you using, does it perform better than Jellyfin?
Relatively straightforward; it works well as essentially fancier mpd, and performs quite well. :) It is audio-only unlike Jellyfin; if you like to have your media all in one place, then Jellyfin might be a better option.
As for the client, nowadays I do most of the handling through the MPD protocol (I like having native clients on both desktop and mobile devices for the same audio setup), but before I developed that setup, I had good experience with the Iris web client.
I’m not into having “all my media in one place”, for me it is more about having my NAS playing music in a surround system in a way that I don’t need to have a computer / my phone actually doing the stream. I want to launching an app / webui on the phone to control the music but the NAS is actually playing it. I don’t like things draining my phone’s battery not having 200GB of music on a phone. On my laptop and desktop I simply sync the music with Syncthing and use Dopamine to play it. Thank you.