© Mark Edward Soper 2017

Mark Edward Soper, Expanding Your Raspberry Pi, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-2922-4_8

8. Media Serving

Mark Edward Soper1 

(1)Indianapolis, Indiana, USA

In this chapter, you learn two ways to turn your Raspberry Pi into a media server or media playback device.

Hardware Used in This Chapter

  • Raspberry Pi 3

  • Wired or wireless network

Selecting a Distro

There are no shortage of media-centric Linux distros available for the Raspberry Pi. Here’s a partial list, all available in BerryBoot-compatible distros from the Alex Goldscheidt BerryServer web site ( http://berryboot.alexgoldcheidt.com/ ).

  • LibreElec 8.0.1 (Pi 1, Zero, Zero W; Pi 2, Pi 3)

  • Max2Play (Pi 2, Pi 3)

  • OSMC (Pi 1, Pi Zero; Pi 2, Pi 3)

  • PeachPi TV LTS (all versions)

  • Pi MusicBox ...

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