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I am running xenialpup64, frugal install, and would like to play music over my network from a music server running Daphile. The server has an IP address. Can anyone recommend a music player that will play from an IP address.
I would use it on various pcs and laptops of various specs.
Thanks
number77

Is that how Daphile works? I thought that Daphile accepts audio data from various sources and plays it out through an attached speaker system.

It has an IP address so you can manage the server remotely from other devices.

Can it also re-stream the audio content to client machines on the network?

rcrsn51 wrote:Is that how Daphile works? I thought that Daphile accepts audio data from various sources and plays it out through an attached speaker system.

It has an IP address so you can manage the server remotely from other devices.

Can it also re-stream the audio content to client machines on the network?

Not sure if it can stream what it is playing but it will act as a NAS and with another Daphile pc on the network can access the main server and all its music and you get a choice of audio device to use, the main server or the remote client audio device and so play to a remote system.
My problem is Daphile will not run anything else but Daphile.

number77 wrote: or the remote client audio device and so play to a remote system.

So the remote client must be another Daphile system? Then it sounds like you are out of luck with streaming the content to a Puppy machine.

If Daphile was a true NAS, it would share its content using a standard protocol like Samba.

rcrsn51 wrote:

number77 wrote: or the remote client audio device and so play to a remote system.

So the remote client must be another Daphile system? Then it sounds like you are out of luck with streaming the content to a Puppy machine.

If Daphile was a true NAS, it would share its content using a standard protocol like Samba.

Yassm does find Daphile but directs me to web address

number77 wrote:Yassm does find Daphile but directs me to web address

I don't know what you mean by that. Can YASSM also identify shares on the Daphile server? Can you mount them?

Get the latest version of YASSM and check for shares.

rcrsn51 wrote:

number77 wrote:Yassm does find Daphile but directs me to web address

I don't know what you mean by that. Can YASSM also identify shares on the Daphile server? Can you mount them?

Get the latest version of YASSM and check for shares.

No I cant mount them.

number77 wrote:No I cant mount them.

Are you saying that YASSM found shares?

Does the server require authentication?

From the Daphile manual:

rcrsn51 wrote:

number77 wrote:No I cant mount them.

Are you saying that YASSM found shares?

Does the server require authentication?

It does find shares and does require authentication

I eventually got this to work.

1. I installed Daphile to a hard drive.
2. I added some music files to Playlist.
3. I went into Storage and made some things shareable.
4. I booted Xenial64 and ran YASSM.
5. It found and successfully mounted the share named Playlist. No authentication was required.
6. I could play the music in the share. Clicking on a file would open it in Deadbeef.

rcrsn51 wrote:I eventually got this to work.

1. I installed Daphile to a hard drive.
2. I added some music files to Playlist.
3. I went into Storage and made some things shareable.
4. I booted Xenial64 and ran YASSM.
5. It found and successfully mounted the share named Playlist. No authentication was required.
6. I could play the music in the share.

I am working on that.
I have been given a solution on another forum:
Install squeezelite from package manager.
In terminal:
squeezelite -l (to see audio devices.)
squeezelite -o 'default' -s ADDRESS-OF-YOUR-SERVER -n laptop -z
Then open squeezelite
address of server:9000
select laptop from devices (top right hand corner)
In my case laptop sound device appeared in daphile on laptop and played over the laptop.
Be interested to see if it works for you.