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I've been running Libreelec/Kodi on a RPi 3B+ for ages. Hard drives hooked straight up to the pi, pi hooked straight up to the projector, does exactly what I want it to do as a Netflix replacement. But I recently got to thinking about a Spotify replacement/supplement. My partner has a lot of music from Bandcamp, friends, herself, etc that isn't on Spotify. I keep it backed up to the same drives hooked up to the pi. So I'm trying to figure out what kind of streaming setup I actually want. There seem to be a lot of streaming server options. Many of them have Kodi clients, but as far as I can tell, none of them have a Kodi plugin to host a server. Maybe not surprising but I was hopeful that that would be the least disruptive way to do what I want. Is it finally time after all these years to see what all the Plex fuss is about? I set up a Plex server on my laptop to try it out and with Plexamp it seems to pretty much work as I want. (When does Plex Pass become a thing? Would I need to pay to have a couple people streaming remotely?) The pi is presumably powerful enough to serve music, but I'm not sure how to set it up as both a music server and video frontend at once. I could move all the storage to a Plex server and just use the pi as a client, but it seems silly to stream video to exactly one destination. I could separate the video and music storage and set up another pi or whatever as a server for just music, but then I'd need to buy more hardware and storage. That's fine but I want to be sure we'll actually make use of the setup before investing. Any suggestions? Feel free to tell me I'm being dumb/overcomplicating this.
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I can confirm that Plexamp works just fine without Plexpass from within my home network. I'll see if I can get it going outside and report back. (Edit: very easy, no trouble.)IUG posted:Plex worked very well for me when I switched my videos over to it about a year ago. I don’t really miss anything from XBMC, and I was using that since the original Xbox. Being able to access it outside my house is something I can’t believe I didn’t do before. Are you running a separate frontend and server or using one machine for both? One of the things I like about my setup right now is the simplicity of having everything self contained in LibreELEC/Kodi. Handsome Rob fucked around with this message at 21:55 on Jan 3, 2025 |
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tuyop posted:You can run multiple programs on the one computer you’re using for Kodi already. Plex server is just another program, super easy to install if you have command line access to this computer. Using LibreELEC as an OS makes it very very easy to run Kodi and very hard to run anything else. But, yeah, I could swap that out for a proper OS that would handle both.
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