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From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Friday, September 14, 2018 9:20 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [eac] RE: [EAC] Re: Music hoarding [was: EAC to Output to Uncompressed FLAC]
On 09/13/2018 08:17 AM, 'M' [email protected] [EAC] wrote:
> additional tag(s) that can show various definable attributes (summer
> tune, 70’s, driving, etc.) which could be used to develop play lists
Seems like a good use of the GENRE tag. You can have multiple instances of GENRE without causing problems.
> a media player that can play based on pointing to the location of
> the files rather than absorbing the files into the player
A dirt-cheap Raspberry Pi with an added HiFiBerry soundcard <https://www.hifiberry.com/> running piCorePlayer <https://www.picoreplayer.org/> (free!) is the low-cost option I'm most familiar with. Others like Sonos, but it's much, much more expensive, closed-source and can only work with something like 64,000 tracks. The Pi can either be completely self-contained by adding Logitech Media Server (also free!) to handle library tasks, or it can be a standalone player that connects to a server on another computer. If you want pretty, you can even add a screen, though it works fine without one. The Pi is all Linux under the hood, but there's no need to actually know Linux at all to set it up and use it.
Depending on your needs, you can get a soundcard that outputs digital bits or one that's a high-quality DAC. I'm a surround sound fan, so I went the digital route as it's stable enough to work perfectly with DTS and AC-3.
If you're comfortable fiddling around with things like VPNs, the piCorePlayer option would also make it possible to stream your library remotely, for example to your phone while you're in the car. If data speed is an option, it can be configured to convert your FLAC files to MP3 on the fly for streaming.
Sonos (and others) may have similar capabilities, I'm just not familiar with them. The Pi option is such an exceptionally good value that I've never been tempted to look at anything else. But many would be more comfortable paying more to get the support of a large company, and I completely understand that.
I've been using the server software in question for at least ten years now and am still extremely happy with it.