6/1/2023 0 Comments Plexamp on raspberry piThere are certainly better options if music streaming alone was your goal. Might be helpful to other users if you clarified how your using iTunes, are you using Apple Music's online streaming service or is all your music ripped locally? If the former are you wedded to Apple Music or open to other streaming platforms? Plex would also require you to keep the PC on while photos or music is being played/served so may not be ideal. Again not sure if an app on Apple TV can act as the main screensaver. There's also a PlexAmp mobile app dedicated to music. If your music is all held locally (as opposed to Apple Music's streaming online service) another option is to install Plex (server) on your PC ( to index your photos and music) and then use the Plex app on the Apple TV to display/play them. If you're willing to spend a bit more money and want a simple life then OSMC Vero 4K+ is a well made device that is custom built to run Kodi (smoothly and without issue) and also comes with a remote control and an S/PDIF optical port port built in.īoth Kodi routes would allow you to attach a hard drive with your music files and photos directly to the device - meaning you don't need to keep your PC on 24/7 - and both support AirPlay 1. If you're happy to use a Raspberry Pi then LibreElec (a small RPi operating system that only runs Kodi) is probably the simplest route to installing Kodi on one - but you'd also need a hat to get an optical output. You can 'side load' Kodi onto an Apple TV but it's not trivial and not sure how it works in terms of being the main slideshow/screensaver on the device if you do that. Kodi would give you access to the Kodi Photo/Picture library feature and can also act as an AirPlay client for iTunes, as well as indexing your local music library directly. I’m sure fellow members will be along quite soon with more mainstream solutions and/or to confirm I’m possibly barking up the wrong tree! My current streamer is a Raspberry Pi and given that the Pi is a small board computer, I’m thinking there must be some way of using it to achieve your aim.Īs I say, apologies for no answer but your question has prompted me to do a bit of investigating. I wouldn’t want to do it all the time, but to have the option again would be great and it means that all those long since forgotten photos enjoy the light of day again. I appreciate that this in no way provides an answer but I am now wondering if I too could somehow re-jig my current arrangement to be able to listen to my music and project my photos on to the TV - I remember how much I used to enjoy doing this. Several years ago, I had my PS3 running “slideshows” with photos displayed on the TV, accompanied by random music stored on the PS3’s hard drive. Regret not having a ready made answer here but your question has now got me thinking. I am currently rethinking how I may achieve my main aims but although I am reasonably technical, my current knowledge of the market place is lacking so ideas please? This Apple TV box has optical audio output, I believe the later ones do not. I am also aware of various aging Apple products 'ceasing to be effective' after a while. First issue is that the Apple TV only caches a certain number of photos so after a short time repeats are frequent (I have over 12,000 images, I am not sure how many the Apple caches). This works but not as perfectly as I would like. The PC is 1Gig Ethernet connected to my router (A BT Home Hub 6) and the Apple TV box is wirelessly connected to the same router. to the TV via a HDMI out of the Apple TV box. This set-up also gives me the opportunity to randomly stream my photos also from my P.C. This is currently done by streaming iTunes on my PC to an aging Apple TV box and that links via optical to the Ruark. Also simultaneously I would like to stream my entire photo collection randomly to my TV. My current requirement is for my music to be streamed from my PC to my Ruark MR1 Mk2 sound system.
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