by sordup » Fri Oct 15, 2021 11:34 am
So, trying to work through ideas...
Without wanting to spend money on a new stereo/head unit for my car, which is otherwise a fine, working unit, what options have I to bring my music library physically into the car? I do not want to use streaming services or rely on the cloud at all, and I am perfectly happy (prefer it actually) with connecting to my current head unit with the Aux 1/8" audio jack
I was naively hoping that a 256gb card with only my music library on it (which, unfortunately, is still not
all of it, it being over 300gb at this point) , connected to my phone using MMA would be the solution.
Now that that is a no-go, I'm thinking my tablet computer with an external drive holding my library and MMW onboard. I have this already and can simply use this connected to the head unit. But it is a very cumbersome solution with tablet and cable to external drive needing to be stored somewhere accessible but not in the way - and even still this is not something I can control easily, certainly not while driving, like my phone mounted on the dash.
So, is there a way to use MMA to control or play from the tablet/MMW computer without being on the internet? Is there a way, for example, to set up a local network in my car between phone and computer in order to use UPnP so I could control playback from the phone and just have the computer stashed somewhere completely out of the way in the car?
Is there some other option that would essentially offer the same thing, like a hard drive media server that can be installed in the car and accessible wirelessly by MMA on my phone??
Forgive me if this is all, again, naive. I am a bit outside of my specialties here (onboard, computer based professional audio production), mobile and wireless audio not being one of them.
So, trying to work through ideas...
Without wanting to spend money on a new stereo/head unit for my car, which is otherwise a fine, working unit, what options have I to bring my music library physically into the car? I do not want to use streaming services or rely on the cloud at all, and I am perfectly happy (prefer it actually) with connecting to my current head unit with the Aux 1/8" audio jack
I was naively hoping that a 256gb card with only my music library on it (which, unfortunately, is still not [i]all [/i]of it, it being over 300gb at this point) , connected to my phone using MMA would be the solution.
Now that that is a no-go, I'm thinking my tablet computer with an external drive holding my library and MMW onboard. I have this already and can simply use this connected to the head unit. But it is a very cumbersome solution with tablet and cable to external drive needing to be stored somewhere accessible but not in the way - and even still this is not something I can control easily, certainly not while driving, like my phone mounted on the dash.
So, is there a way to use MMA to control or play from the tablet/MMW computer without being on the internet? Is there a way, for example, to set up a local network in my car between phone and computer in order to use UPnP so I could control playback from the phone and just have the computer stashed somewhere completely out of the way in the car?
Is there some other option that would essentially offer the same thing, like a hard drive media server that can be installed in the car and accessible wirelessly by MMA on my phone??
Forgive me if this is all, again, naive. I am a bit outside of my specialties here (onboard, computer based professional audio production), mobile and wireless audio not being one of them. :)
