more software than hardware, but tonight i set up navidrome (media server for music) with tailscale (personal mesh vpn that essentially links your devices on a private network) using play:sub as the frontend player on my phone
so yeah i guess now i can stream my FLACs from my computer to my phone. for free. and it scrobbles
i’ve already had to change one setting (by default it’s set to scan hard drive every minute, lol) so i hope this won’t have any dire consequences for my hardware. i’m not setting up a different machine for this it’s my main pc that’s doing the media serving.
on the other hand, i do have a spare laptop upstairs that could be converted into a media server, i guess. but it would mean moving my hard drive with all my music and movies upstairs, instead of plugged into my gaming pc (which is hooked up to my tv already).