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Replacing CD Collection (self.selfhosted)

submitted 8 months ago by Adonnen to c/selfhosted

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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?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] Adonnen 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

It's still a server. A file server in this case.