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?
Don’t bother ripping. Just buy a 300 cd changer
Volumio
Will run on a dedicated raspberry pi and x86.
(dedicated means, the computer will only do this, nothing else)
Connect the sound out of the device to the amp and it will provide a web interface to directly control playback.
Music is not streamed, it can play files from a local disk, or from a network mount.
The free tier is 99% of what someone needs.Moodeaudio
Same as above without fees, though explicitly only for raspberrypi and a limited number of SBC’sA key fundamental for any music is the metadata tagging and Musicbrains Picard is the best way to do this
Picard can automatically find the proper metadata for almost everything, and, can “scan” ripped from cd tracks and automate the naming and folder structure that a music library should be in.And as others have said, rip to flac
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:
Fewer Letters More Letters NAS Network-Attached Storage Plex Brand of media server package RAID Redundant Array of Independent Disks for mass storage RPi Raspberry Pi brand of SBC SBC Single-Board Computer
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As someone else has said, whether they’re playing from the device or not it’s a server.
With that said, I’m a fan of Logitech Media Server and Squeezelite (the player part).
Install both on a pi or something, add a HDD (I bought a usb plug and power cable for £15 on Amazon) and then rip and transfer it to the HDD.
Then you can play it through any old speakers you connect. If you use a pi you can get a hat for it that will make audio quality good.
There’s even an app for it called Squeezer on F-droid which allows control from your phone.
It’s old but it works, use the Material Theme to make it look nice.
Bonus is that you can install Squeezelite on a bunch more Pis and dot them around the house and play the same library on those at a later date
To add to this, there’s even the capacity to add usb dacs if the underlying distribution supports it. Picoreplayer was my introduction to these tools and I’m pretty sure it’s my final destination. Can’t recommend it enough if they have the time and curiosity to get it set up.
I would also add that if the person OP is asking on behalf of is not so inclined to get into the technical parts and okay with possibly throwing money at the project, volumio is there. I tried this first and appreciated it for what it was, but I wanted features behind the pay wall which are readily available for free with pCP.
FYI ripping wise, FLAC is the way to go.
And there are guides to using EAC and similar ripping software to get perfect rips.
Well worth the effort to do it once and perfectly.
FYI encoding wise, it’s unlikely that you can hear a difference between FLAC and e.g. Opus if you rip the audio from a CD.
Perhaps, but if you ever want to renecode to something else, it’s much better to have a lossless source to begin with. Storage is cheap.
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.
It’s still a server. A file server in this case.
