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advice on music streaming - qrius - 2016-12-17
folks: I have my music library on a linux mint machine and would like suggestions on the best way to stream music to Kodi running on fire TV - do I go the FTP server way or something else?
Also, I enabled AirPlay on Kodi but unable to get any audio from the speakers despite selecting the Kodi option, would appreciate any pointers on this as well.
thanks in advance
RE: advice on music streaming - nickr - 2016-12-17
FTP should work, but I tend to use smb. nfs will also work.
No idea on airplay sorry.
RE: advice on music streaming - qrius - 2016-12-17
(2016-12-17, 08:26)nickr Wrote: FTP should work, but I tend to use smb. nfs will also work.
No idea on airplay sorry.
thank you. My understanding of smb is it meant to be used as a file share mechanism between linux and windows. If this is correct, I dont have a windows machine, just the Linux one. Can you please clarify?
RE: advice on music streaming - nickr - 2016-12-17
Use samba to share your music folder to the network [1]. Add the share to the firetv kodi as a music source [2]. Job done.
[1] plenty of howtos on the net
[2] as per our wiki.
RE: advice on music streaming - qrius - 2016-12-18
thank you, I am now able to stream my music.
RE: advice on music streaming - nickr - 2016-12-18
Excellent.