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No DLNA? How is one supposed to play music from a NAS?

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There is support for it according to the changelog:

https://github.com/hifiberry/hifiberry-os/blob/master/Change...

Although it does seem to be broken currently

https://github.com/hifiberry/hifiberry-os/issues/156

HiFiBerry makes some inexpensive little amps, DACs, etc that mount on top of a raspi and allow you to drive a pair of speakers (1). I have 4 or 5 of these and I’m a fan.

I’m looking at this hifiberryOS as a possible replacement for volumio with a snapcast server for whole house sync’d audio (2). Looks pretty full-featured but I haven’t tried it out yet. Maybe others know of good music software for the pi or have experience with this?

1. https://www.hifiberry.com/shop/ 2. https://volumio.org/

The general consensus seems to be the http://moodeaudio.org is quite a bit better than volumio.

This comment section was my first introduction to it ... I'm definitely going to give it a spin, thanks!

You can do it via snapcast. I have basically that setup. A Raspberry Pi that just has a snapcast client. Then there is a snapcast server with MPD, DLNA server etc, that streams via snapcast.

But given that they have other direct-playing applications it is a strange omission.

This seems to be the goal: https://www.hifiberry.com/beocreate

Which means - you're expected to plug it directly into (or build into) a speaker.

Regardless of what you plug it into, there has to be a way to play music from your home server.

DLNA is pretty much the only open standard in existence to play music stored on one device on a second device, controlled by a third device.

Mount your music using NFS from first device to second device then use third device to control second device? What am I missing here?

Note: they actually included DLNA in their build, so this is moot.

DLNA is few notches below NFS in complexity. It has autodiscovery in the local network and optimized for library organization, control and streaming.

Using NFS instead of DLNA is much like what Russians call "sunset by hand".

Autodiscovery and NFS work fine together. My Kodi box found my NFS exports. I added them. I control Kodi using my phone.

Yes that's how dlna works.

Dlna can be used in different places here. You could also drive it as a Bluetooth sink from another Dlna server. Or use it as a spotify mode. It's not obvious.

Logitech Media Server or Roon are their recommendations. I’d go with LMS and iPeng as a remote and you have Sonos-like multi room audio controllable from your phone.

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