#1 Heads-up - Daphile
Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2019 10:04 pm
I thought I'd share a new discovery I made last week, which looks good enough to be a perfect solution to what I've been looking for in a music server for literally years.
The application is called Daphile - the link is here: https://www.daphile.com/ and there is a big thread over on diyaudio about it: https://www.diyaudio.com/forums/pc-base ... er-os.html.
It's designed to run on a small PC (system requirements are minimal) and the install includes the Linux OS - it's dead easy, just run the downloaded ISO and connect from another computer using a browser, or use the iPeng app, that works as well. It presents the hard disk as network storage, so it's easy to load files onto it from another machine and sort out automated backups. It supports the main streaming services - Qobuz, Spotify and Tidal as well (I think). And it also does gapless playback properly.
Cost? Nil, as it's open source.
We tried it over the weekend as a proof of concept, firstly on a Linux virtual machine and then on an old Acer laptop that I fished out of storage. You just have to be a bit careful when installing it as it WILL wipe all your data from the target PC. We were so impressed with it that I'm now designing my own music server solution around it - to be started once I'm done with the Beast OTL's.
The application is called Daphile - the link is here: https://www.daphile.com/ and there is a big thread over on diyaudio about it: https://www.diyaudio.com/forums/pc-base ... er-os.html.
It's designed to run on a small PC (system requirements are minimal) and the install includes the Linux OS - it's dead easy, just run the downloaded ISO and connect from another computer using a browser, or use the iPeng app, that works as well. It presents the hard disk as network storage, so it's easy to load files onto it from another machine and sort out automated backups. It supports the main streaming services - Qobuz, Spotify and Tidal as well (I think). And it also does gapless playback properly.
Cost? Nil, as it's open source.
We tried it over the weekend as a proof of concept, firstly on a Linux virtual machine and then on an old Acer laptop that I fished out of storage. You just have to be a bit careful when installing it as it WILL wipe all your data from the target PC. We were so impressed with it that I'm now designing my own music server solution around it - to be started once I'm done with the Beast OTL's.