slimserver VS jellyfin-chromecast

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"

Hmm interesting idea. You actually install jelllyfish on the chromecast itself? I am looking in the project... There is a repo jellyfin/jellyfin-chromecast with code only, no info. Some stuff on how to set up the networking. Docs seem to say you need to have google play store (not f-droid) version of the jellyfin app.

I see from this link ( https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-chromecast/issues/372 ) that the solution should be to switch the jellyfin chromecast setting to unstable. However, when I do this, no media will even begin playing.

After some research, I found this pull request which aims to solve the problem. Specifically, this commit. Unfortunately, after months of back and forth, the PR seems to have stalled out completely.

Hrm. This is the primary one I was thinking of: https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-chromecast/issues/13

Yes. https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-chromecast/issues/366

My guess is that it's due to different factors such as device type, Android version, and the type of file being played. There are actually quite a few bugs open on both the Android TV and Chromecast clients. But Here's the bug I'm referring to on Android TV and here's one of the bugs I have when using Chromecast. Both of which are quite annoying.

Someone could correct this, BUT I believe that page is defined in the chromecast receiver application: https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-chromecast/blob/master/src/index.html