Thanks for the feedback. Some interesting possibilities.

https://www.linuxlinks.com/forked-daapd-daap-itunes-mpd-music-player-daemon-rsp-roku-media-server/

About a year ago I installed Chimaera (devuan 4.0) on a retired server to use as a media server. I used 4.0 because I wanted to use xmms2 as a music player (it's no longer available as of 5.0, thus 4.0) but didn't want to mess with getting source and building it.

As my other boxes here use 5, I created two scripts that allow me to control xmms2 on the media server via ssh (using public key auth) as if it were installed on my own pc. I now can use xmms2 commands on my devuan 5 pc as if it were installed locally, except that the soundcard and speakers are now connected to the media server.

On the media server I have about half a HDD worth of (dance) mixes from one to mostly two hours long, some of which I did myself when I was dj'ing (many) years ago, some I still do when I feel creative and I have the time (my taste hasn't changed much), but most have been bought online (frisky radio was brilliant when "polefolder" was still selling his mixes there). On the server there are also 1000's of records (painfully digitised when I stopped dj'ing) I have ever bought and played, and a somewhat smaller collection I call "chill". All in all it would take months and months to listen to everything once 24/7.

ks
When the media player (that's booted by my local "xmms2" script using "wake on lan") starts, it runs a local ~/.xmms.rc to clean up yesterday's list and log, to create a randomly sorted list of all the mixes and about two dozen oldies, and then starts to play.

I've built but not yet installed a daapd fork (owntone-server) so I could listen to my stuff on my phone when I'm not in my office. Photos can be viewed with a browser from anywhere (lan only).

If there's interest I will upload the two xmms scripts I build (adding a few comments so you know what I'm doing).

perhaps the bigger issue is keeping those simple players operational
(who knew you could wear an optical device out...rhetorical, naturally)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discman

then there are those returning to acoustical roots(actual instruments)

see for example(requires javascript):
https://www.awfulpurdies.com/

for the non-javascript amongst us:
https://www.iowapublicradio.org/ipr-music/2023-05-08/awful-purdies-iowa-folk-band

The Free Software Media System | Jellyfin
https://jellyfin.org/

I have a file server in the basement where I store my music files. And I use Audacious and a play list to play that music over my network on my PC.

Has MyMedia for Alexa been scrapped? What is a reasonable time for a support reply?
https://www.reddit.com/r/alexa/comments/18jsfic/has_mymedia_for_alexa_been_scrapped_what_is_a/

ERROR: ld.so: object 'libgtk3-nocsd.so.0' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (cannot open shared object file): ignored.

Check to make sure you have the libgtk3-nocsd0 package installed that is the package that contains that file.

zeus@9600k:~$ apt-file search libgtk3-nocsd.so.0
libgtk3-nocsd0: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgtk3-nocsd.so.0

If installed and it does not start then no clue on solution to garbage programming.

Steve