Overview

OwnTone is the new name of forked-daapd. I was previously using forked-daapd as a way to play music to my HomePods via automations in Home-Assistant.

Since then I’ve changed a lot in my HomeLab infrastructure and I never got round to rebuilding my forked-daapd setup. I’ve since found out that the project has changed pretty significantly so I’m giving OwnTone a go!

NOTE! : This post is a work-in-progress as I am currently changing my Owntone setup. I have therefore removed some of the steps that failed in more recent versions for me and may revisit this again.

Setup

I am running OwnTone in a CT within Proxmox. Following the Installation Instructions from OwnTone:

• Updated packages:

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sudo apt update

• Upgrade packages:

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sudo apt upgrade

• Install required tools and libraries:

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sudo apt-get install \
  build-essential git autotools-dev autoconf automake libtool gettext gawk \
  gperf antlr3 libantlr3c-dev libconfuse-dev libunistring-dev libsqlite3-dev \
  libavcodec-dev libavformat-dev libavfilter-dev libswscale-dev libavutil-dev \
  libasound2-dev libmxml-dev libgcrypt20-dev libavahi-client-dev zlib1g-dev \
  libevent-dev libplist-dev libsodium-dev libjson-c-dev libwebsockets-dev \
  libcurl4-openssl-dev libprotobuf-c-dev

• Clone the project repo:

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git clone https://github.com/owntone/owntone-server.git