>If you don't care for windows, airsonic is also pretty good; it supports both dlna and subsonic protocols. The only reason I use fb2k more often is that airsonic doesn't support multiple genres (I frequently shuffle a genre instead of using playlists). It's pretty heavy with memory compared to fb2k, though.
Truth be told, mythtv works okay for my usual use case: shuffle all my music tracks (~22,000). But it has crappy playlist support.
I've been testing out a variety of music servers and am currently playing around with Navidrome[0], which seems to have better playlist support. And it's FOSS that runs on Linux.
BTW, Navidrome supports the Subsonic API and, as such, supports airsonic/subsonic clients.
I'm not so interested in using my phone to "cast" anything and I have plenty of storage and can fit the bulk of my music collection on the phone itself. I play that music with VLC[1] on the device -- no streaming.
>While you can't cast _to_ Roku using a dlna controller, Roku media player will allow you to browse and play content from a dlna server. There's also multiple channels available that provide other methods to stream music to Roku.
I tried that with jellyfin and mythtv (both are dlna servers too), but Roku Media Player can't handle anywhere near that many songs. It just hangs until I quit the app. And jellyfin can't handle such large playlists either -- it crashes the jellyfin server when I try to play a lot of songs.
I'm not in a huge rush to move the music off mythtv, but I do want to host my own streaming platform (I wish I didn't hate Kodi so much, Emby and Plex want to spy on me, and jellyfin's UI and Kodi-like strictures on folder structure (separating TV from Movies, rather than just dealing with the Genre --> Title --> Seasons[TV] --> Episodes[TV] structure I've been using for decades. As such, those are really non-starters for me.
Mythtv's plugin ecosystem is weak and streaming plugins are pretty much non-existent.
Eventually, I'll find (Navidrome?) a new music server and a media manager with decent streaming plugins. Then I'll add another fanless PC to plug into my receiver and run with it.
Until then, while what I have isn't awesome, between Mythtv, Roku and TiVo, most of my home media needs are met. I don't care about watching videos on my phone or "casting" them. And if I did, can access my video library and stream via Nextcloud.
Thanks for the suggestions. While they don't currently fit my use cases, I appreciate the information and discussion!
Truth be told, mythtv works okay for my usual use case: shuffle all my music tracks (~22,000). But it has crappy playlist support.
I've been testing out a variety of music servers and am currently playing around with Navidrome[0], which seems to have better playlist support. And it's FOSS that runs on Linux.
BTW, Navidrome supports the Subsonic API and, as such, supports airsonic/subsonic clients.
I'm not so interested in using my phone to "cast" anything and I have plenty of storage and can fit the bulk of my music collection on the phone itself. I play that music with VLC[1] on the device -- no streaming.
>While you can't cast _to_ Roku using a dlna controller, Roku media player will allow you to browse and play content from a dlna server. There's also multiple channels available that provide other methods to stream music to Roku.
I tried that with jellyfin and mythtv (both are dlna servers too), but Roku Media Player can't handle anywhere near that many songs. It just hangs until I quit the app. And jellyfin can't handle such large playlists either -- it crashes the jellyfin server when I try to play a lot of songs.
I'm not in a huge rush to move the music off mythtv, but I do want to host my own streaming platform (I wish I didn't hate Kodi so much, Emby and Plex want to spy on me, and jellyfin's UI and Kodi-like strictures on folder structure (separating TV from Movies, rather than just dealing with the Genre --> Title --> Seasons[TV] --> Episodes[TV] structure I've been using for decades. As such, those are really non-starters for me.
Mythtv's plugin ecosystem is weak and streaming plugins are pretty much non-existent.
Eventually, I'll find (Navidrome?) a new music server and a media manager with decent streaming plugins. Then I'll add another fanless PC to plug into my receiver and run with it.
Until then, while what I have isn't awesome, between Mythtv, Roku and TiVo, most of my home media needs are met. I don't care about watching videos on my phone or "casting" them. And if I did, can access my video library and stream via Nextcloud.
Thanks for the suggestions. While they don't currently fit my use cases, I appreciate the information and discussion!
[0] https://www.navidrome.org/
[1] https://www.videolan.org/vlc/