[Cialug] Home music

[lister at kulish.com]

I'm running xbmc on my windows gaming/media computer accessing 
audio/video/pic via SMB shares.
Works like a champ.

On Tue, 3 Jan 2012 19:37:04 -0800, Zachary Kotlarek wrote:
> On Jan 3, 2012, at 5:56 PM, Josh More wrote:
>
>> 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?
>
>
> I'd strongly recommend Plex over XBMC. I don't use it much for audio,
> but I've got almost 23,000 video files in it for usage much like you
> describe for your audio, and it's by far the best solution I've 
> found.
>
> There's a beta Linux client for Plex:
> 
> 	http://forums.plexapp.com/index.php/topic/34482-the-state-of-plex-media-center-on-linux/
> I haven't tried it yet, so I can't speak as to what is isn't working.
> But linux client support is definitely on their list, and their devs
> will actually talk to you if you find bugs/etc.
>
> There's also PlexBMC, a plugin for XBMC that will connect to a Plex 
> server:
> 
> 	http://forums.plexapp.com/index.php/topic/27270-plexbmc-client-for-xbmc/
>
> Plex is a lot like XBMC (being based on it) but it's slicker, and the
> design has been updated to make it easy to manage your collection as 
> a
> single server and multiple clients*. You can make XBMC work on
> multiple systems with a shared filesystem, but you'll run into
> concurrency issues when it updates its databases and whatnot. When I
> was running XBMC I eventually declared one system the master and gave
> only it write access to the DB files so they boxes wouldn't interfere
> with each other.
>
> 	Zach
>
> *Among other things. It also has a vastly improved scanner,
> transcoding support, etc. But most of the other new features are less
> important for audio-only use.