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I reckon you should msg John Darko https://darko.audio/
You could see if you could do some sort of case study colabo
I reckon you should msg John Darko https://darko.audio/
You could see if you could do some sort of case study colabo
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I feel like I'm opening a can of worms... I want a better way to get audio from my storage to my stereo, there's an airgap to jump.
So far I've been using the toslink Chromecast Audio... but casting the audio is already stepping down the quality and cast doesn't do gapless.
I use Plex for everything, so Plexamp Headless is an attractive idea - but of course Raspberry Pi 4 availability is, well... unavailable.
I've looked at streamers, Roon looks attractive but the app is very poorly rated and forums seem to bemoan it. Bluesound looks plausible but they seem to be so invested in going down the Sonos route I don't know that long-term they'll stay invested in the Node so I don't want to adopt an entirely different system that doesn't have a long life ahead of it.
Bluetooth is out, Tidal I don't use, Deezer is out, Spotify Connect is crappy (no HD audio still and I've got all this local audio which remains the point).
Feels like if I'm not building a Plexamp Headless then I'm just going to a streamer that can use WiFi and access file storage to directly stream, but then I have a whole "other" experience on my stereo than I do everywhere else (which is all Plexamp).
What do people do here? How are people streaming their music to their silly hifi systems.