Ask HN: What's your ubiquitous media solution?
- Play almost any music including personal collection and streaming
- Play it almost anywhere: at home, on mobile, in the car, at a friend's, maybe abroad.
- Be accessible by any OS and nearly any device (web, iOs, Android... less bothered about desktop fat clients or terminal). In fact, an iOs client might be a necessity since friends won't use it unless it's straightforward via iPhone, and I'd like it to be a sociable setup.
- Ideally allow sharing or access by trusted others -- a nice-to-have.
- Another nice-to-have: plugins or hackability.
My primary concern is music, but I'd extend this to podcasts, radio (recorded on PVR currently), and video (again PVR probably).
Currently I'm thinking of Mopidy [1] or Tomahawk [2] plus home-based NAS. Curious about whether NASes can be synchronised to cloud services, since streaming everything from a home-based server might not always be desirable. Equally, a cloud-based Plex [3] doesn't feel perfect since I'd like to retain physical control over the storage and software.
How have you solved this problem or similar? What were the gotchas? UK-based if that influences things.
[1] https://www.mopidy.com/
[2] https://www.tomahawk-player.org/
[3] https://www.plex.tv/