07-15-2022, 09:38 AM
(07-14-2022, 07:51 PM)radiooff Wrote: pjv14: So, Plexamp is just a player. You still need a Plex Media Server (PMS)?
Right now I have a Moode Setup with: a Pi 4B 8GB, RPi Touchscreen, a 4GB drive and a Topping USB DAC. It's a great local server to my stereo. I like running a low power device for a music streamer/server. I've been thinking recently of getting rid of Spotify and rolling my own internet music streamer. I don't if Moode does this at all (or even can) but I don't want to duplicate hardware.
I have a lifetime Plexpass. but I have not used Plex in a few years. I've been thinking of just installing it on my gaming rig for audio streaming via Plex (Android); but I hate the idea of running my rig all day long.
What do you think?
Yes, Plexamp is just a player and it needs to connect to a PMS. I use the PMS for serving video already and have a dedicated NUC running it (and some other home automation stuff) on my LAN already so using it for music as well doesn’t add anything for me.
If you don’t want to have a box running PMS all the time, I don’t know what to tell you for rolling your own remote stream service.
I haven’t tried this myself, but if you want to try to use moOde’s http server as Tim suggested above, and you don’t mind rolling up your sleeves a bit, I bet it wouldn’t be too hard to install zerotier on your moOde box and create your own private VPN. There is an android zerotier client in the play store which works great. I do use it for accessing my PMS and other home LAN stuff remotely (just have not had a reason to try it with moOde since I can stream from my PMS remotely already).
