jellycli VS slimserver

If using mopidy is not the best way to approach this, I'm open to alternatives. I've tried jellycli, but it currently has some track selection issues that make it unworkable for me. (It also uses ~50% of my raspberry pi's CPU, while the python-based mopidy uses ~2%, so I really question what's going on with that go program.) I also have a Chromecast Audio available, but before I go to the effort of creating a letsencrypt cert and overriding DNS on my network I'd rather exhaust the Raspberry Pi options.

Another option could be to run jellycli (https://github.com/tryffel/jellycli) on the server. It has a headless option which looks like it should appear as an option on the Jellyfin "Play on" menu. This would allow you to use a common interface whether playing locally or via the NAS conneted speakers.

Jellycli - Terminal player written in Go with remote control abilities

JellyCLI

There's also jellycli or Preserve that are other options.

Logitec Media Server - Music server. Yes, I'm old enough to have a still-working original squeezebox, as well as multiple squeezebox radios. They're awesome.

I ripped all my audio CDs, back when I still bought CDs, to flac format and serve them up via: https://github.com/Logitech/slimserver or mpd or both.

Logitech Media Server or Owntone would be my recommendations.

Jellyfin is not ideal for this on its own. If you want some that could scale but also play locally check out Logitech Media Server. A lot of other audio projects are built on its code, much less play super nice with it if you want to expand in the future. Notable features is tons of plugins to integrate webradio, podcasts, etc and the easiest whole house audio setup out there.

For serving local music, the free and open source "Logitech Media Server"[0] is a great solution -- main weakness is the lack of a central organization promoting it. In addition to working smoothly with dedicated ("squeeze") clients which can be Logitech-brand or DIY[1, 2], it has a massive plugin catalog that allows e.g.

- airPlay integration: stream to your squeeze-clients via airPlay, stream to your airPlay clients from squeezebox.

- chromeCast integration: stream to chromeCast devices from squeezeBox.

- upNp integration: stream to upNp clients.

The system was originally developed by "SqueezeBox" who also made (awesome) physical devices. SqueezeBox was acquired by Logitech many years ago. Logitech put out one or two devices before giving up, but they are actually playing really nice by continuing to support development on the server (see [0]).

[0]: https://github.com/Logitech/slimserver

Here is link number 1 - Previous text "LMS"