Better yet, with the offline mode you can listen to songs stored in the device’s local memory for when no network connection is available. “DS audio allows you to stream music stored on your DiskStation with your Android/iOS device wherever an Internet connection is available. Plus, we do it all for free and without any ads.” We organize it for you and make it easy to manage your library and play your music on any computer or device you have without having to sync a thing. “iBroadcast is a service where you can consolidate all of your music online. “A versatile music app for Plex & Apple Music.” What follows are five more software possibilities for personal/private streaming service generation: Find a wifi network, offline and go!Īnd yet PLEX/Plexamp isn’t the only way to stream losslessly from a home computer’s hard-drive to a smartphone.

The kicker, however, is another slice of streaming service emulation: Plexamp permits the temporary offlining of any album to its downloads section – useful if we don’t wish to eat any of our smartphone’s monthly data allocation whilst out and about. In effect, we have our own private Tidal or Qobuz!įrom its settings menu, Plexamp lets us optionally drop the streaming quality from lossless to (OPUS codec) lossy for on-the-fly server-side transcoding - our choice of bitrate up to 320kbps. Now PLEX/Plexamp behaves more like Spotify! With PLEX and Plexamp permanently joined via an encrypted Internet connection, our hard drive’s contents are available to us anywhere, all of the time. Last week’s short film about PLEX and Plexamp showed how we can turn a multi-TB library of FLAC files into a personal/private streaming service:ġ) Connect the hard-drive to a computer and install PLEX for it to scan the hard drive’s contents, index the library and overlay a Roon-like layer of metadata: album info, cover art, artist bios, photos etc.Ģ) To stream any album losslessly from PLEX over the Internet to our smartphone we need to install Plexamp (Android, iOS) - an app that usefully preserves PLEX’s metadata layer.