Iris

I use Funkwhale [1] internally. It is such a beautiful designed interface and it makes listening to my music fun again. Funkwhale also honors a carefully curated music collection (I use MusicBrainz); my MP3s are mounted read-only; I can share my Music with family-members; it is Album-focused, which is more in line with my listening habits (I don't want a random stream of different artists, I like to listen to a single album, the way artists arranged their tracks etc.); although, I do use playlists sometimes. My family members have an "MP3" folder in Nextcloud and when they add music, Funkwhale is set up to automatically scan their bind-mounts for change and add music. Currently, the library has about 16000 MP3s (mostly bought, some ccby, some music from games I bought, some digitized audio-cds - I try to by MP3 from bandcamp, if available

Snapcast is awesome, especially when bundled together with Iris and Mopidy [1], which includes the links to Youtube, Soundcloud, Funkwhale, podcasts, streams (etc). I wrote a blog post on how to build a small Raspi Zero Image for Snapcast [2] that directly connects to the Snapserver included in (e.g.) the Iris Docker [3]. I added a modified Docker Image for Iris that includes the Funkwhale extension here [4]. Works flawlessly since 2 years, almost zero maintenance and great music experience. My synchronized Snapcast extents through several rooms and two houses (120km apart), through IPSEC with a very small bandwidth (5000kbit up). Many thanks to all the maintainers of this stunning stack of OSS. [1]: https://github.com/jaedb/Iris [2]: https://du.nkel.dev/blog/2021-04-10_buildroot-snapos/ [3]: https://github.com/jaedb/Iris/blob/master/dock

Seems like a good time to plug my favorite FOSS alternative, Snapcast. https://github.com/badaix/snapcast#Snapcast https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2016/02/18/multi-room-aud... I use shairplay[0] to stream from an iOS/macOS device, and Mopidy[1] with the Iris UI[2] to play server-side from your music collection, Spotify, or other internet radio. [0] https://github.com/juhovh/shairplay [1] https://mopidy.com/ [2] https://github.com/jaedb/Iris#readme My "speakers" are cheapo Bluetooth speakers with a raspberry pi attached to the back. Works beautifully and reliably. If the old Sonos devices have line in, maybe this is a way to continue using them?