This is something that I would like to consider this one if the UI looks more of a modern minimalist touch.
Show HN: Simpler access to your music from the web that looks nice
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Re: Show HN: Simpler access to your music from the web that looks nice
#12My problem is, all my music is: a) WAV files with no internal metadata (there is a metadata file alongside though and a album-cover.jpg) (My ripping process pre-dates the ubiquity of FLAC playback support) b) stored on a central file server currently only accessible via SMB/CIFS. And what I want is some remote head-unit solution connected to [powered] speakers running a touch screen UI that presents the lot as a musi…
Sounds like something a shell script could fix.
Re: Show HN: Simpler access to your music from the web that looks nice
#13My problem is, all my music is: a) WAV files with no internal metadata (there is a metadata file alongside though and a album-cover.jpg) (My ripping process pre-dates the ubiquity of FLAC playback support) b) stored on a central file server currently only accessible via SMB/CIFS. And what I want is some remote head-unit solution connected to [powered] speakers running a touch screen UI that presents the lot as a musi…
> there is a metadata file alongside though and a album-cover.jpg
Is the metadata file in a format that you made yourself or was it produced by a third-party piece of software? And is it text based or binary format?
> There's a lot of Android and Linux based front-ends but most of them insist on only indexing locally stored music, and also only supporting file types with built-in metadata support, even though my music is stored in a logical Artist/Album/Track.wav folder/file naming convention.
Ok, so if we start off with that part of it, and we ignore the additional metadata file for now.
> stored on a central file server currently only accessible via SMB/CIFS.
Can you SSH into the server? Or alternatively, manage the server with a locally connected keyboard and monitor? Or is this some kind of NAS box that does not allow you to do any of those kinds of things?
Because I have a couple of ideas but it will depend on the specifics of your setup.
Re: Show HN: Simpler access to your music from the web that looks nice
#14My problem is, all my music is: a) WAV files with no internal metadata (there is a metadata file alongside though and a album-cover.jpg) (My ripping process pre-dates the ubiquity of FLAC playback support) b) stored on a central file server currently only accessible via SMB/CIFS. And what I want is some remote head-unit solution connected to [powered] speakers running a touch screen UI that presents the lot as a musi…
I'm reasonably sure that Jellyfin could handle this setup. For music, it normally uses in-file metadata, but lacking that, I think you can give it enough info through paths and filenames for it to look up the metadata online (this is what it does for movies and TV shows). It definitely uses a text-based metadata format (.nfo) internally to cache this metadata, and it probably would be easy to programatically convert your metadata file to this format.
Re: Show HN: Simpler access to your music from the web that looks nice
#15My problem is, all my music is: a) WAV files with no internal metadata (there is a metadata file alongside though and a album-cover.jpg) (My ripping process pre-dates the ubiquity of FLAC playback support) b) stored on a central file server currently only accessible via SMB/CIFS. And what I want is some remote head-unit solution connected to [powered] speakers running a touch screen UI that presents the lot as a musi…
> there is a metadata file alongside though and a album-cover.jpg Is the metadata file in a format that you made yourself or was it produced by a third-party piece of software? And is it text based or binary format? > There's a lot of Android and Linux based front-ends but most of them insist on only indexing locally stored music, and also only supporting file types with built-in metadata support, even though my musi…
Metadata is XML, but could be easily converted post ripping (as a scheduled batch process I guess)
It's currently a file share on a Windows Server box, but at some point will probably move to a dedicated NAS (due to rising energy costs)
Re: Show HN: Simpler access to your music from the web that looks nice
#16My problem is, all my music is: a) WAV files with no internal metadata (there is a metadata file alongside though and a album-cover.jpg) (My ripping process pre-dates the ubiquity of FLAC playback support) b) stored on a central file server currently only accessible via SMB/CIFS. And what I want is some remote head-unit solution connected to [powered] speakers running a touch screen UI that presents the lot as a musi…
Sounds like you need to
a) transcode to flac, at least for the file size limits b) use beets.io or Musicbrainz to match your music and write metadata to them.
Updating your library will make it much easier to use with any sort of streaming frontend.
Re: Show HN: Simpler access to your music from the web that looks nice
#17I appreciate all these players and server thingeys and what not, but what is extremely needed right now is a robust tagger, library db type thing. As far as I know, there are two solutions beets https://github.com/beetbox/beets and picard https://github.com/metabrainz/picard. Beets is maintained, but relies on plugins which are not; but mainly it is slow as to be unusable for a decent size library. Picard is better, but limited in functionality (I want it to have a persistent db of my music too).
I just want a thin wrapper around an sqlite db that can do rudimentary tag detection and have functionality like "Import this folder into my library, moving the files and adding the songs to the table"
Re: Show HN: Simpler access to your music from the web that looks nice
#18My problem is all my music isnt actually my music at all :(
Re: Show HN: Simpler access to your music from the web that looks nice
#19I appreciate all these players and server thingeys and what not, but what is extremely needed right now is a robust tagger, library db type thing. As far as I know, there are two solutions beets https://github.com/beetbox/beets and picard https://github.com/metabrainz/picard . Beets is maintained, but relies on plugins which are not; but mainly it is slow as to be unusable for a decent size library. Picard is better,…
FWIW beets has worked really well for me. I would recommend it to anyone who is comfortable enough in the command line to navigate its interface
Re: Show HN: Simpler access to your music from the web that looks nice
#20My problem is, all my music is: a) WAV files with no internal metadata (there is a metadata file alongside though and a album-cover.jpg) (My ripping process pre-dates the ubiquity of FLAC playback support) b) stored on a central file server currently only accessible via SMB/CIFS. And what I want is some remote head-unit solution connected to [powered] speakers running a touch screen UI that presents the lot as a musi…
> there is a metadata file alongside though and a album-cover.jpg Is the metadata file in a format that you made yourself or was it produced by a third-party piece of software? And is it text based or binary format? > There's a lot of Android and Linux based front-ends but most of them insist on only indexing locally stored music, and also only supporting file types with built-in metadata support, even though my musi…
Is there a sort of universal format for music metadata? I know image metadata has XMP.