On 2019-10-11, Chris Green wrote:
>I'm considering my options for music playing around the house.  I have
>much of my music digitised now and available from a file server that's
>on all the time.  What I need is some simple 'clients' that can access
>the file server and play the music.

mpd.

With the right configuration you can get an mp3 stream, which a pi
will happily play. And control is through a standard protocol, with
lots of different interfaces available (including a bunch of web-based
ones) to suit various tastes. I like
https://github.com/bobboau/Bragi-MPD among others.

Right now I'm listening to a stream encoded on the media server,
played through a Pi and speakers, and controlled it via ncmpcpp
(terminal client) and M.A.L.P. on Android.

R

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