Okay, I discovered navidrome this weekend and it’s what i was looking for as a on-the-road solution so I migrated to it instantly.

But now, at home I use 3 raspberry-pi’s (headless units, no X installed) with mpd which is controlled using mpc and/or home assistant. I like it, it’s simple, convenient and super lightweight. a cronjob assures music is turned off in the evening, a script polls the joystick from the sensor-hat and a super tiny web gui, all relying on mpc.

Can I use navidrome as a music source instead of the current samba shares? It would reduce indexing of the nas down from 4 to 1 client.

Other ideas are welcome too.

  • non_burglar@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    You can use mpd with a subsonic plugin, that’s what is running on navidrome to allow other subsonic api clients to connect and play music.

  • gid@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    1·
    2 months ago

    Do you mean using Navidrome as the source of music files for your Raspberry Pis with MPD?

    There’s an alternative music server called Mopidy, which has a few extensions that would cover this:

    • Mopidy-MPD: exposes Mopidy as an MPD server so you can use existing MPD clients with it
    • Mopidy-Subidy: allows using music on a Subsonic-compatible server in your Mopidy library.

    It’s been a while since I used this set-up though. From what I remember it’s a bit limited in terms of searching the library.