Comment by pimeys

24 days ago

Yep. Same with Plex. I used to run it with 1.2 GHz dual core Intel Atom. I always encode to 128 kbps Opus when I stream my music and I'm not on Wi-Fi. It took about 300-500ms until the music started when I pressed play. The CPU usage was very low even when actively encoding.

The only thing that takes a bit more of CPU is if you have a huge music collection (I have about 2.5 TB), and you do the first metadata and album art scan over the collection. Otherwise you can run these systems with a potato.

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throwaway2037  24 days ago 

    > Otherwise you can run these systems with a potato.

Crikey: This gave me a laugh like none other in a while. For anyone else who doesn't get the reference, you can build a very basic battery from a potato, e.g., https://stemgeneration.org/potato-power/

Now, I would love to see a YouTube video where someone tries to power a portable music player from a battery. Could a PiZero be done?