Raspberry Pi 5 as network storage, music server, and player - PART 4e

4e. INSTALLATION - INSTALL LYRION

From the pCP web interface go to the "Lyrion" tab and select "Install"

When complete, select "Start LMS"

Select "Configure LMS" - you will be taken to the Lyrion setup wizard.  You can select some of the initial options on that page, but it's not critical - all of those options can be configured later.

Select "Next" at the far-lower-right of the webpage (it's in a horizontal black band).

Select your Local Music Folder from the directory tree.  This is the path we created earlier -

/mnt/nvme0n1p1/pCP_SHARE/pCP_MUSIC

The same for Playlist Folder.

Finally you will get to the main Lyrion interface.  Click on the 3x horizontal lines, top-left, then Server settings.

Under "Basic Settings" for Media Library Name I used "pCP". Save Settings.


Lyrion "tweaks"

I don't want to see images of artists - I think it makes the display messy. So -

Lyrion Server Settings > Plugins > Music and Artist Information

Artists photos - dropdown menu - "Don't show pictures"

deselect - Find music and artist information online during library scan

deselect - Download and pre-cache artist pictures from online sources


OK, at this point we have successfully set up our rPi 5 as network file share, and Lyrion music server.  We can now stream our local music library to any Lyrion-compatible endpoint/streamers ... however, this type of streamer is not very common!  Most commercially available streamers support the well-established UpNP/DLNA streaming protocol instead.

That's where Lyrion's "UPnP/DLNA Bridge" plugin comes in - it allows a DLNA-compatible streamer to be used as an endpoint for Lyrion.

NEXT - 5. ENABLE UPnP/DLNA Bridge Plugin

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