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Do any of you know another solution to stream audio from my phone to my server

I use snapcast throughout my house and devices, but there’s no snap_server_ for Android.

I’ve been meaning to try roc, for which there is an Android client that will both play and serve.

Sonobus also claims to be many:many; I haven’t tried it either and it doesn’t look particularly active.

I don’t use UPnP or DLNA because of the security issues, so I can’t offer a suggestion about that. I thought DLNA was a pull oriented protocol - like, to send music from your phone you’d have to select and play on your computer with a DLNA client. Can you push media with DLNA?

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Scrath@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I’m not very well informed on the specifics of the DLNA standard or how it is differentiated from UPnP so take what I say here with a grain of salt. My understanding is that there are 3 device types in DLNA

A server which provides media

A client which can pull media from the server

A renderer which can play back media from the client

I’m not sure if the server is necessary stricly speaking or if my device is using the underlying UPnP stuff but I can use Macast, which is a DLNA renderer, on my desktop computer and then select it as a playback device in Symfonium on my android phone where it shows up as a UPnP device.
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