Hi! I have a shared cabin and it has a really solid hi-fi set up, but at the moment we just use bluetooth to connect and I would like to give it an upgrade. The set-up already has a great RME DAC and I have a used NUC… so what do you recommend I try out? I want to stream Tidal and it’s a plus if it can play local files as well). Possibly also other services if possible, but they are lower on the list.
I’ve been looking at Volumio (costs money to use Tidal), LMS (old and quirky, although still updated), Plex (seems overkill just for music and think I need premium here as well…) or ant other software I haven’t found yet?
When you’re visiting, use Roon. The licence is transferable, so long as you’re only using one instance. Simply login and deregister your home Core. When you return home, reverse the process.
Thank you for your quick reply, and yes I’ve thought about maybe doing this as well down the line… but I also want to have a solution that others could use, as I’m not the only house hold using the cabin.
Not knowing your relationship level with the other house holds it’s hard determine a good recommendation. Is it possible to pool resources with the others and set-up a Music/media server system? If you trust the others using the cabin (and they trust you), setting up a Plex server on a home theater PC/MAC would be an option.
If it is just for music then adding an audio casting device (chromecast audio, lots of options, I used an Acemax M5 audoicast WiFi music adapter) that you can cast your music to would work. I used this for a family member that wanted to cast from their phone (itunes) to their older stereo system. Works for them just fine.
But, if you only want to address your own playback and let them worry about theirs, then using your Roon while at the cabin would be the way to go.
Thank you for good suggestions! They are all family and i trust them, so a media server of some kind with a good user interface for ipad/iphone/android would be best. I should have given more info from the get go, so sorry about that.
I’ve heard Plex would work, I just think their app looks very video focused and bloated… but I’ll look better into it, thanks!
Interestingly, I set up a second system on my site (the first one is in my apartment a location 20km away), if I log into the site’s Core with the same Roon license, the local library will be generated, when I go back to my apartment and log in again to the Core of set 1, will it have to do all the scanning of the library present in this Core?
Plex is very video focused but Plex does do music. One can link a Tidal account to Plex. Plex has decent metadata for video but almost none for music. Plex also doesn’t offer the same music library management as Roon nor does it have the same ability to control and manage endpoints.
However it is free if one is using to stream locally and there are Plex apps available for most media players. Definitely worth looking into.
Thank you, it looks like I’ll need to look better into Plex. Only one endpoint here at that’s the DAC connected to the NUC so that’s not a problem… Metadata would be a plus, but not a deal breaker. Hope I can do it without Plex Pass… I’ll read up, thanks!
I’m pretty sure that you can use Plex locally without having to buy Plex pass. Unlike Roon, Plex is very user configurable. One can easily edit the Plex home screen/menu to only show those items that one needs or uses so if one is only using Plex then only the music items will show on the home screen. Good luck!
Before Roon I used Mopidy (https://mopidy.com/) and thought it was better than the rest at the time. It’ll run on a Raspberry Pi and is controlled by tablet or mobile. It supported DAC hats too. Oh, and it’s free.
The PlexAmp app is for streaming music from Plex but one can also play/stream music using the regular Plex app. As long as the player, be it a phone, tablet, Roku, Fire Stick, etc. is on the same network as the Plex server than I don’t believe that Plex pass is needed. Check out this article for more information on Plex pass: Plex pass
