[Cialug] Home music

[Jonathan C. Bailey]

How about Voyage MPD (http://linux.voyage.hk/voyage-mpd)? It looks like it may meet your standards. I don't use the MPD variant, but I am using the plain Voyage Linux on a bunch of ALIX boards for VPN/cellular routers.


-Jon

----- Original Message -----
From: "Josh More" <jmore at starmind.org>
To: "Central Iowa Linux Users Group" <cialug at cialug.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 3, 2012 7:56:01 PM
Subject: [Cialug] Home music

I'm at the point where I need to find a better solution for listening
to music throughout the house.  I used to use LTSP so I could have
fanless / no hard drive boxes serving as clients, but LTSP has become
progressively more annoying to use.  I was thinking that there might
be a "standard" solution, but most of what I've found seems to be
overkill.

Here are the requirements:

* Light enough to run on a fanless box. I have two VIA systems that
I'd like to use.  I can probably toss a low-end SSD (or SD card
reader) for local storage.
* Supports playlists by playing in random order
* Supports playing folders in random order
* Runs headless... ideally with an Android app interface option.

If it's cheaper to just buy a pile of Rokus or something to replace my
fanless systems, let me know.  I can deal with that if they'll work in
a headless environment.

At this time, I am leaning towards XBMC and connecting them to NFS
shares off of my ReadyNAS and home server.  I've looked at Plex, but
there doesn't seem to be a Linux client, so unless I buy tablets and
hide them in odd places, that could be a less than ideal solution.
However, it seems like this should be a lot easier by now.  What are
all of you doing?

-Josh
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