On the plus side, I got #owntone working with an SSHFS mount which lets me stream audio from my (remote, on t'Internet like) Plex server to the G4 Mac Mini.

https://owntone.github.io/owntone-server/
#retrocomputing #vintagemac #marchintosh

Any #owntone people on here? I'm using it to stream to all the #audiopro speakers (linkplay-devices) via #airplay protocol.

Since some time back playback suddenly stops randomly, and sort of often. It's possible to just restart by pressing play again, but it still kills flow :D

When it happens, this appears in the log:

$ ffmpeg: Application provided invalid, non monotonically increasing dts to muxer in stream 0

It's playing from the local music collection so I doubt this is a source lag issue.

Seems I might fail getting #Owntone to stream reliably over #Airplay to the #AudioPro Drumfire. The A10s are fine, but the Drumfire cuts out every few seconds. It's about a meter from the nearest AP so it's definitely not signal strength related. Streaming using AudioPro's own app is fine, but it propably uses the native API.

Here's the thing. The Drumfire also has an ethernet port - but connecting that up results in pure chaos. It will randomly (and often) switch which of the interfaces (ethernet, wifi) has which of the two Mac addresses, and the corresponding internal API id. This causes Owntone to not be able to stream reliably to it at all.

Again, the AudioPro app is fine though (and I just need to tell arpwatch in the router to disregard any shenanigans from those addresses).

I guess the proper solution would be to add support for the #LinkPlay API to Owntone. Oh joy.