I’ve tried a few options over the years, including SMB and NFS, XBMC as well as HTML with javascript I found online.

I don’t have a large collection of music (fewer than 100 albums), so hand coding things was actually one of the quicker options to setup. That’s despite then hassle of hand coding the URL to each FLAC file as well as the album art. But sometimes the javascript doesn’t handle large collections of FLAC and each implementation I tried had different quirks so I’ve sunk a lot of time into that in other ways without a satisfactory result.

I’ve heard of Emby, Jellyfin, Plex, Roon and Servio. I just need something that’s simple to set up and access. I don’t need fancy features beyond the ability to play the music with a pleasant UI that can be accessed from the web (HTTP, not HTTPS). I’d be running this from a Raspberry Pi 3B which already has the lighttpd server running.

I’m also considering just getting a portable, 128GB FLAC player with a minijack connection and moving on with my life without getting involved in networking at all.

Any recommendations for an uncomplicated way to approach to doing this?

Edit: Thanks so much for the helpful and enthusiastic comments! I tried Navidrome and had it up and running in ten minutes thanks to this tutorial video: https://invidious.nerdvpn.de/watch?v=7V5UUJlSknY

I had to install docker-compose on the RPi. Then I got an error which turned out to be because I also needed a separate docker daemon which I installed following these instructions: https://www.simplilearn.com/tutorials/docker-tutorial/raspberry-pi-docker

In just 10+ minutes I had my music collection accessible from all my devices - thanks again!

  • rhys@lemmy.rhys.wtfEnglish
    2·
    6 months ago

    I use Jellyfin in a way that sounds like what you want. You run a Jellyfin server wherever your FLACs are, access it via the web, and play things through your browser — or through Finamp on Android, in my case.

    • Kelo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      6 months ago

      I can vouch for Jellyfin - Nothing harder than setting up docker and connecting via Finamp. Been a very “set it and forget it” experience for me.

  • smee@sosial.link
    1·
    2 months ago

    I like Navidrome, it also supports the… Subsonic(?) protocol so one can use dedicated apps with on-device caching, which is nice for mobile devices without unlimited data.

  • rsolva@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    6 months ago

    I use Navidrome, it’s a single binary and gives you your own Spotify, kinda. It can be use with many other apps, in addition to the web interface, as it supports the subsonic protocol.

    • NathanUp@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      6 months ago

      Seconding Navidrome. I stream from my Navidrome server to my phone, and then via DLNA from my phone to my HiFiBerry / stereo system. It’s very nice.

  • nezach@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    1·
    6 months ago

    ReadyMedia (formerly MiniDLNA) works fine for me as a container via podman on a raspberry pi.

    podman run -d --name=minidlna \
--net host \
-v dir/to/music:/media/audio \
-e MINIDLNA_MEDIA_DIR_1=A,/media/audio \
-e MINIDLNA_FRIENDLY_NAME=Music \
--restart on-failure:3 \
--platform linux/arm64 \
docker.io/vladgh/minidlna:latest

    No http interface though for playback. Still very simple and does the job for me.

  • geography082@lemm.eeEnglish
    1·
    2 months ago

    Why would you stream flacs? If you download lossless is to hear directly with ASIO or WASAPI .