UniversalMediaServer VS Navidrome Music Server

DLNAmpvRenderer UMS

You can give a try to apps like Universal Media Server, they usually do the trick on Windows.

Download and Install Universal Media Server: Go to the official website (https://www.universalmediaserver.com/) and download the latest version of Universal Media Server (UMS) for Windows. Install the application by following the on-screen instructions.

I've never used a Jellyfin media server. I've usually just used Universal Media Server and it does read/stream/transcode iso files on the fly and stream them to any DLNA UPnP device on your network

You could try streaming to your PS3 via https://www.universalmediaserver.com/

After you have your SBS video, you then have a few different choices on how you want to play it on your Quest. You can play it on your computer with VLC and connect to your computer with BigScreen remote desktop in SBS mode (not the best because the controls for pause, rewind, ff, are difficult to hit this way), you can buy Skybox and play it off of an SMB share, you can buy Virtual Desktop and stream it from your PC, or you can setup a DLNA server such as Plex or Universal Media Server but not Window's builtin DLNA server nor Jellyfin and play it in BigScreen, Skybox, MoonVR, or any of the other video players that support SBS video played from a DLNA server.

Also, the newest version of Universal Media Server has a new feature that will do on-the-fly conversions of 2D content to 3D. I haven't tried it yet, but do have a guide on how to set it up for Quest 2 saved somewhere. Ah, found it. Not sure how that compares quality wise to a ripped 3D Blu-Ray.

My primary way to play music is from my self-hosted navidrome[1] server with my collection of albums I've mostly purchased from bandcamp. I can stream it to many different devices at home or on the go.

But sitting next to my bed is a Walkman (actually a $10 Jensen version) with a few of my favorite cassettes in the nightstand drawer. Granted, I listen to raw black metal, so the format fits the music well, but I really enjoy just popping in a cassette and hitting play. When I "metaltate", I listen to full albums and do not want to ever be interrupted or have skipping audio due to bluetooth or anything else. It is a really simple and great experience.

Would I ever take my walkman with me or want to carry around a bunch of tapes on a trip? Of course not! But it does have a time and place that is valuable.

When friends come over, we use either vinyl or my custom built RFID cards. There is more of a ceremony to digging through a physical stack of albums and being forced to listen to the album front to back.

[1] https://www.navidrome.org/

Basically, you run a server on your Mac that scans your music collection and "broadcasts" it to the network (LAN or WAN) via either the venerable UPnP/DLNA[1] family of technologies or the newish Subsonic API[2]. Of course, there are others, like DAAP or AURA, etc..

From there, you need to point a compatible player to said server to play your music on any supported device.

If you want to listen to your music on the go, pairing a Subsonic-compatible server on your Mac and a Subsonic-compatible app on your iPhone is probably the way to go. On the server side, I have only used the original Subsonic[3], which was good, but Navidrome[4] seems to be OK. But be aware that the whole "scene" is super messy and fragmented, with the usual abandoned forks of open source alternatives of everything.

Note that this means opening your local network, which comes with its own complexity.

This r/selfhosted thread[5] should give you an idea.

My use case is slightly different. I only care about streaming to my Denon CEOL mini system, which only supports UPnP/DLNA, so my current setup is:

- All my music is stored on a 2011 Mac Mini,

- I use Kazoo Server[6] (not perfect but reliable) to stream it to my audio system,

- which I control via the HEOS app provided by Denon.

Whatever stack you choose, make sure your files are tagged correctly and consistently.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DLNA

[2] http://www.subsonic.org/pages/api.jsp

[3] http://www.subsonic.org/pages/index.jsp

[4] https://www.navidrome.org/

[5] https://old.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/pz9dpb/lets_mak...

[6] https://docs.linn.co.uk/wiki/index.php/Kazoo_Server_setup_Ma...

[Scanner] Fix Windows scanner (#2633). Thanks @caiocotts

EDIT: This version has a bug when running on Windows that breaks your database! I deleted the Windows binary from the download page and will publish a fix very soon. For details see: https://github.com/navidrome/navidrome/issues/2630

Jellyfin is great for movies & shows. As an anecdote, it's not so good for music if you're a collector. I personally use Navidrome for that[0].

Anyway, Sonarr[1] makes use of .NET, too. Very reliable software, in my experience.

[0]: https://github.com/navidrome/navidrome

I am running ND via the docker container (deluan/navidrome:latest which is 0.49.3 (8b93962f) at the time of this writing) and interact with ND using the web interface.