Streaming tracks to an entertainment center?

I’m looking to get a different listening environment and conveniently stream some WAV tracks from a network drive to FireTV and stereo system.

I’d rather not upload to Youtube but I could always add a music folder in Plex.

Any other obvious suggestions i’m missing without whatever slightly janky software is out there on the Amazon (Android) app store?

I suppose i could sideload some other Android app as well.

I’m probably making this more difficult than i need to, but perhaps someone else has had the same thought :slight_smile:

I am in the Apple ecosystem so I stream over Airplay (to a Raspberry Pi 3 with PiSound to my Yamaha HS5). To be honest … I can‘t remember when I was using actual WAV/Flac/MP3 files … times have changed for me in that regard.

If I was on Android, I‘d probably would use something like Kodi, Plex or MPD https://www.musicpd.org/

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Have a look at JACK, it’s anything but janky, it’s not really easy to set up, but once you’ve done it, it will just work.

https://jackaudio.org/

You’ll have to dig around, but I’m sure you can route to android. If you get a ROKU you can just connect to it as standard as a wireless display via windows with no extra software. I have a ROKU plugged into the HDMI of a projector, some of the best money I ever spent.

oh boi! Haha… I have to deal with jack on my Pi. And I really wish I would not know jack. But also alsa and pulse. It‘s so damn undocumented I started to hate linux more than ever.

If you go that route, use a GUI for jack (QjackCTL) - I was always to lazy to remotely log into my Pi for the GUI … but I guess it would have saved me a lot of time. But OP said he uses FireTV … so this tip might not help at all?

I’ve only used it on windows. It was fairly simple when I followed the info. There’s plenty of videos on youtube. The performance was really good in Bitwig, maybe better than the Elektron drivers.

The windows one comes with a few GUI apps, with about 600 buttons of which you need to press just 3…

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