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#1 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » Fun and games with UPnP servers on Arm64 Raspberry Pi » 2026-05-13 11:35:37
UPDATE: while you might think your media library is OK and works properly because you can play it on various devices as I have been doing for many years be aware that the Media Streamers and players likeJellyfin and minidlna etc are VERY picky about the metadata for the files being correct!
There are a number of 'TAG' editors available, most work with just about any media format you care to mention. Some do mp3 etc but not FLAC.
Kid3 is unpleasant to use IMHO, I deleted it.
MusicBrainz Picard is slightly clunky in how you select files and I can find no way to unselect files. I just exit and then start it up again and move onto the next files I need to faff with! Seems powerful and good though. It refused to have anything to do with two Tangerine Dream tracks from the ripped Cyclone CD. Said the size the file claimed it was and the size it actually was were different. fsck on the external USB drive didn't fix it so I am ripping the CD again!
#2 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » Fun and games with UPnP servers on Arm64 Raspberry Pi » 2026-05-02 12:08:55
Jellyfin can 'Cast' the media to the Cambridge Audio CXN100!
That means instead of trying to work with fat fingers on a tiny iPhone screen that doesn't show everything I can control it from my laptop complete with album artwork.
Niggles: the dnla doesn't want to show some artists whose names begin with TUVWXYZ,
Thelonious Monk is there but not Zoot Horn Rollo.
But the 'We Saw A Bozo Under The Sea' album by Zoot Horn Rollo is there!
I'm still trying to make sure everything is there sooo...
Anyway, Jellyfin is a definite 9 out of 10 from me.
#3 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » Fun and games with UPnP servers on Arm64 Raspberry Pi » 2026-05-02 11:57:18
Edited all previous posts in this thread to change the Cambridge Audio player to the CXN100.
#4 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » Fun and games with UPnP servers on Arm64 Raspberry Pi » 2026-04-28 17:28:50
The DNLA plugin has known problems.
It doesn't find all the music files.
For example my Artist list stops at 'Sex Pistols' and so doesn't show 'Soft Machine' or 'Stockhausen Karlheinz'.
There is much chatter on the forums. The DLNA Plugin is believed to be the problem not Jellyfin.
I can see me going back to just plugging the USB drive into the Cambridge Audio CXN100.
Or using another Raspberry PI with a DAC to play audio via Jellyfin... and sell the CXN100 player on ebay!
#5 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » Fun and games with UPnP servers on Arm64 Raspberry Pi » 2026-04-28 13:50:16
Jellyfin is serving audio to my laptop.
But does it work with the Cambridge Audio CXN100 Network media player?
No.
What?
It's a feature!
DNLA capability for Jellyfin has been removed from the base install and is now a Plugin.
In the web interface click on Plugins.
The page opens up and shows what is installed.
Click on Available.
Scroll down to DNLA and click on it.
It works! First time use is a lot slow. Might speed up for 2nd etc use.
Not a really bad problem if the interface is slow, just a bit tedious. Nothing money and a more powerful Raspberry Pi won't fix!
I am generally pleased with how things have worked out.
Jellyfin has found all the album art etc. I could do with something better than an old iPhone to control it now!
#6 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » Fun and games with UPnP servers on Arm64 Raspberry Pi » 2026-04-28 12:40:26
Yes Jellyfin crashed at 87% because it ran out of memory.
However, load of albums were there in the web interface and tracks could be played hrough my laptop speakers.
Jellyfin works on a Raspberry Pi 3, I quite like it, and I hope to get running as it should.
So I created a 1GB /swapfile and restarted jellyfin which is tootling along nicely if a bit slow because of having to use the swapfile.
If you can, get a Raspberry Pi with as much RAM as possible if you want to run Jellyfin!
Mine has 905MB of available RAM and is using 808MB of swap.
Permissions for external USB drives can be a pain. Adding this line in /etc/fstab solved that!
UUID=Your-USB-drive /mnt/Verbatim vfat defaults,noatime,users,umask=000,rw,auto 0 0
I'm using a 500GB Verbatim USB drive for my media files. I mount it on /mnt feel free to bung it somewhere else.
Because of the 500+ albums and 6000+ tracks I'm not sure of an easy way to work out if anything is missing.
#7 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » Fun and games with UPnP servers on Arm64 Raspberry Pi » 2026-04-28 08:14:42
That brings us to Jellyfin at jellyfin.org.
They have a debian version in their repository.
The online documentation is good.
I installed the 'extrepo' script and let it do its' thing.
The actual jellyfin install went without problems.
It expects to be stopped and started by systemd.
Hmm, what to do?
github.com/Labna/jellyfin-sysvinit
fixed that!
Jellyfin is mainly controlled using its comprehensive web interface.
I did that from my OpenBSD laptop.
It is taking hours to scan the external 500GB USB drive...
I left it running overnight, it had got to 87% this morning and I am certain it has crashed!
Some investigation to do then.
Possibly, just possibly, a Raspberry Pi 3 isn't quite up to running Jellyfin... We'll see!
#8 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » Fun and games with UPnP servers on Arm64 Raspberry Pi » 2026-04-28 08:03:45
For completeness: The Kunbus I am using is based on a Raspberry Pi 3.
I installed minidlna on my OpenBSD laptop.
The results were much the same - many albums missing, but the logging is much better!
Both the Kunbus and OpenBSD got to about 3500 FLAC files before they gave up.
OpenBSD minidlna.conf allows 4096 open files. I didn't try to increase that number.
If you don't have thousands and thousands of media files or just want to play with UPnP servers to try it out then minidlna is ideal.
Small, light, very little in the way of setup. It really does 'just work'.
But not well enough for me!
So I purged it.
#9 Desktop and Multimedia » Fun and games with UPnP servers on Arm64 Raspberry Pi » 2026-04-24 15:20:40
- DaveT
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I'm running devuan Arm64 on a Kunbus Raspberry Pi industrial computer.
It's job is to be a server for my hifi system.
After 15 years I waved godbye to Sonos and moved on to a Cambridge Audio CXN100 media player. Because 'reasons'.
The Cambridge Audio CXN100 cannot work with samba - Richer Sounds lied to me is all I have to say!
It needs a UPnP media server.
OK, they exist, let's go to it...
1) gerbera
easy install, terrible documentation on setting up the gerbera.conf file. ALL of the documentation is bad.
With a bit of faffing it was sort of running but the Web GUI would NOT work. No way to add the audio fiiles into the sqlite database it uses.
Searching turned up no useful info.
I purged it.
2) minidlna
easy install. very little to modify in minidlna.conf.
Works!
Logs some FLAC errors but we are looking good.
The Cambridge One StreamMagic app seems happy and away we go!
Except. Some folders are empty. Why? No-one knows. Very little info on fixing issues.
If I can't fix the 'No Content' problem in the Captain Beefheart directories then another purge is coming on!
I did meet him in the early 1980s. Met Winged Eel fingerling too. Very gentle soft-spoken man.
I suppose I might not be clever enough to follow obscure documentation, but if I can't get it to work then it is useless to me.
Watch this space for how it all turns out!
#10 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » [SOLVED] DNS stopped working on Devuan Ceres » 2026-02-27 16:30:46
I used Debian Sid (unstable) for many years. There were occasional hiccups but apart from the changeover from Grub V1 to Grub V2 which was 'fraught!' it made a perfectly good OS for my laptop.
I put off moving to Devuan Ceres for a long time, but in the 6 months so far it has been an easy ride - apart from the DNS hassles!
The arm is being used as a server so that is running Excalibur.
#11 Hardware & System Configuration » [SOLVED] DNS stopped working on Devuan Ceres » 2026-02-27 12:12:06
- DaveT
- Replies: 8
February 24th 2026 DNS stopped working on my Devuan Ceres laptop.
I was also setting up a new Devuan arm install, and that had the same problem. DNS not working but ping worked.
There are a LOT of 'do this to make DNS work' posts on the internet and quit a few here.
After trying the many alternatives this is the only thing that worked on both computers:-
/etc/resolvconf.conf becomes:-
# Configuration for resolvconf(8)
# See resolvconf.conf(5) for details
resolvconf=NO
# If you run a local name server, you should uncomment the below line and
# configure your subscribers configuration files below./etc/resolv.conf becomes:-
# no longer generated by resolvconf
# entered manually
search lan
nameserver 8.8.8.8/etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf becomes:-
[main]
plugins=ifupdown,keyfile
[ifupdown]
managed=falseI have no idea why Ceres stopped working, it might be because my internet provider is BT in the UK.
#12 Desktop and Multimedia » FYI Librewolf does not play nicely with eBay » 2026-01-07 23:43:21
- DaveT
- Replies: 2
I run Devuan Ceres. So Librewolf is the latest whizzo version.
It is mainly OK with all websites including eBay.
However when selling and trying to upload pictures it fails.
You get a monochrome pic instead of your nice jpeg.
The only solution is to use the evil that is Firefox.
I would post a bug report to Librewolf but you have to create a login to Codeberg and life is too short. Not doing it.
#13 Re: Installation » Some Concerning Bugs » 2026-01-07 23:36:14
I never bother with swap space on my laptop. Gave up with swap years ago. If it goes bang it goes bang.
Never mind we shall reboot.
My OpenBSD laptop has swap because Theo is fierce and does things the old way. You WILL have swap!
Servers are different...
And none of what the OP was complaining about are bugs. I note he hasn't been back.
#14 Re: Installation » actuallization from Ceres impossible » 2025-10-08 10:59:31
As I run Ceres I do an update upgrade every time I boot up.
Today 2025 October 8th sudo apt update completed and then asked me to run
sudo apt modernize-sources
So I did. And got the whizzo new format!
Go with the flow and all that, who knows why they changed it.
ALL sources are now in their own files in /etc/apt/sources.list.d
so the devaun source is now /etc/apt/sources.list.d/devuan.sources
I think they are letting young people work on the code... BAD! Leave it to us old farts!
#15 Re: Documentation » HOW TO: Install XLibre on Devuan » 2025-10-07 23:17:23
zapper, xenocara works fine on OpenBSD which is my daily driver.
A quick rummage around the interwebs didn't turn up any ports to linux, but what do I know?
I only use Devuan Ceres for those things that have never been ported to OpenBSD, mainly music stuff in my case.
CSound and Pure Data for example.
#16 Re: Installation » actuallization from Ceres impossible » 2025-10-07 23:01:28
Pardon me, but where and when was this documented?
My /etc/apt/sources.list is:-
deb http://pkgmaster.devuan.org/merged ceres main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
and it works fine!
#17 Re: Off-topic » Several Russian Linux Kernel Maintainers Removed » 2024-10-25 08:24:32
https://www.federalregister.gov/documen … esponse-to
President Biden's Executive Order 14071 dated 6th April 2022 is the root cause of why the Russian maintainers were banned.
more mind-numbing detail at Executive Orders 14024, 14066, 14039, 14068.
Brian Lunduke has a couple of videos here:-
https://lunduke.locals.com/post/6263331 … ers-banned
Essentially, the Linux Foundation had no choice, and it will affect other parts of the FOSS environment too.
Happily OpenBSD is not based in the USA.
#18 Freedom Hacks » [SOLVED] HOWTO make pysolfc work in Daedalus » 2023-08-15 18:52:56
- DaveT
- Replies: 2
Pysolfc in the Debian and Devuan repos is so old it needs the file /usr/lib/python3.9/formatter.py
The version of Python in Debian 12 and Devuan Daedalus is 3.11 and formatter.py no longer exists.
Obviously I did a dist-upgrade from Chimaera so I had Pysolfc installed already, it just refused to run!
Linux Mint provided the answer.
Download Python 3.9.17 - or whatever the latest version of 3.9 is when you need to do this.
Use xarchiver or similar to extract ONLY Python-3.9.17/Lib/formatter.py
I created /home/my-username/temptemp and worked from there.
Now copy formatter.py into /usr/lib/python3.11.
And it works!
The real problem is that the debian maintainer of Pysolfc can't be bothered to update the 4 year old version of Pysolfc to the latest v2.20.1 released in April 2023.
Note that Pysolfc is in debian 11, removed from the latest debian 12, but is back in debian sid!
But still the same old v2.6 that still won't work.
A brave soul raised a bug in debian but nothing has been done about it.
#19 Re: Installation » Installing Devuan on a 2007(!) iMac » 2019-09-22 16:42:15
I run devuan ASCII on a 2006 iMac 6,1. The install is _very_ tedious.
Debian Wheezy is the most recent installer that will boot. Anything later leaves you with a black screen and you can't even persuade the install disc to boot.
Install the most basic debian wheezy possible - about 160 packages. No X no desktop no nothing.
dist-upgrade to stretch, clean up unneeded packages etc.
Then follow the instructions for changing from Debian Stretch to Devuan ASCII.
Then install X and whatever desktop and stuff you want.
I use LILO as the boot loader because I don't need any of the features of grub.
Have a read of https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/inte … ure.48596/ which documents my attempt to get FreeBSD installed and a bit more as well. I did it as a resource for anybody trying to get linux or bsd up and running an an old intel iMac.
The FreeBSD installer won't boot because it can't handle the 32bit EFI.
No derivatives of FreeBSD will boot for the same reason.
NetBSD and OpenBSD work well but no sound. There is a bug in the sound chip that linux fixed a decade or more ago but the BSDS never got around to it!
TinyCore linux boots.
Debian Wheezy boots.
Fedora 14 boots.
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