MiddledAgedGuy

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MiddledAgedGuy,

You can do anything! Just take a look, it’s in a book.

How to begin setting up a media center?

I have 16TB NAS dedicated to storing TV shows. It is just a cabinet with ryzen 2600 and no graphics card. I have installed openmediavault in it to access it via smb to other devices. I am an absolute noob in setting up a server. Please tell me how I should go on about turning it into a media consumption machine....

MiddledAgedGuy,

Seconded. It will work for your Linux/Android use case and has apps for some smart TV devices, if that’s useful.

MiddledAgedGuy,

My two cents is that it’s a bit unintuitive, but ymmv. It’s not overly difficult though, and a great piece of software. So do try!

MiddledAgedGuy,

Glad it worked out!

Warning: soapbox. I feel like Windows is commonly considered to be user friendly. It may be easy enough to use, but I find it’s quite user hostile.

MiddledAgedGuy,

Yeah, I have to use Microsoft products for work and I’ve stumbled across their forums for issues before. I don’t think it’s ever once been helpful. Solutions on Linux forums are hit and miss, but still much better.

Welcome to the Linux community!

MiddledAgedGuy,

I was gonna come in with the obvious “see step 1” joke. But what if they added it to a game you paid for? That’d be some bullshit.

MiddledAgedGuy,

I use mpd-sima for autoplay functionality. It would in turn require using mpd or mopidy.

It queries last.fm for recommended artists and tries to find a match in your playlist. It works, but honestly it’s not great. I don’t think it’s any fault of the software. Last.FM doesn’t know your library and seems to return limited results, so it’s like a game of battleship actually getting a hit. (Not quite that bad, but the analogy holds water, overall)

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