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zephod

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Amazon mydedia

I wanted to try Amazon's mymedia (https://www.mymediaalexa.com/#section-3) to play my local music files on Amazon devices. The .deb file only comes with systemd service files. Is there a way to convert these to init.d start scripts? Anyone else tried this?
I found an old post that contained a sysd2v.sh script to do it but is doesn't work any more.

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ralph.ronnquist

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Re: Amazon mydedia

Does a music player need to start at boot?

zephod

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Re: Amazon mydedia

The player doesn't need to start at boot time but a server should so that any time music was requested, it would start playing.
I tried just running the executable but there were errors

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

Unhandled Exception:
System.TypeInitializationException: The type initializer for 'System.Console' threw an exception. ---> System.TypeInitializationException: The type initializer for 'System.ConsoleDriver' threw an exception. ---> System.Exception: Magic number is wrong: 542

RedGreen925

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Re: Amazon mydedia

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.

zephod

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Re: Amazon mydedia

It is installed so it looks like I'm out of luck.

pcalvert

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Re: Amazon mydedia

This appears to be relevant:

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/

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zephod

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Re: Amazon mydedia

So I found that they have a docker version and I was able to get that to work.
Unfortunately, they want to charge me to play MY music on MY device over MY network. I don't think so.
Does anyone know of another way, like an open source version of MyMedia?

rolfie

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Registered: 2017-11-25

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Re: Amazon mydedia

My private suggestion: look into free tools and devices instead of that proprietary stuff. You will be much happier.

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.

pcalvert

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Re: Amazon mydedia

You may be in luck. I stumbled upon this yesterday and saved the info because it looks like it could be very useful:

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

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stargate-sg1-cheyenne-mtn

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Re: Amazon mydedia

music CDs and video DVDs are making a comeback and can easily be found at resale shops offline/online/etc.

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

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ks

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Re: Amazon mydedia

I looked at Jellyfin the other day but ran away as it takes up too much screen space (and other resources). Listening to music isn't all I do during the day (and I don't watch movies).

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).

stargate-sg1-cheyenne-mtn

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Re: Amazon mydedia

interesting.

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

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zephod

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Re: Amazon mydedia

So I think I have found a solution that will work for me.
It is something I already have and use but I didn't know I could use it to play my media.
https://www.openhab.org/
and more specifically https://www.openhab.org/docs/configurat … o-playback

Thanks for the feedback. Some interesting possibilities.