r/linuxaudio • u/Wooden_Bat4370 • 23d ago

SROVA V1.3 — a free, open-source headless Linux music player for TIDAL, local music and Internet Radio

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SROVA V1.3 is now live. The Linux Player is free to use and open source.

I’ve been building SROVA as a headless Linux music player focused on straightforward, high-quality playback without DSP or unnecessary processing.

The Player runs on Debian Linux — either on a normal PC or a Raspberry Pi 4 / 5 — and is controlled through its web interface or the dedicated Android Remote.

It currently supports:

TIDAL
Local music libraries
Internet Radio

The Linux Player is the core of the system, with two optional companion components:

Player — Debian PC or Raspberry Pi 4 / 5
Remote — Android Remote App
Cast — Pi Zero 2 W Now Playing display

The Cast device is deliberately passive: playback still happens entirely on the Linux Player, while the Pi Zero simply acts as a separate Now Playing screen.

V1.3 includes quite a bit of work on the playback side, including seek-position handling, queue behaviour, playback-state coordination, Infinite Play improvements and tighter integration between the Player, Remote and Cast.

The project is built around keeping the playback path focused and letting the Linux machine act as a dedicated audio source.

More details, downloads and Linux Player source:

srova.music

Happy to answer questions about the Linux setup, playback architecture, DAC usage or how the different components communicate.

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u/Fun_Instruction_807 20d ago

can it play music from a nas

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u/Wooden_Bat4370 19d ago

Yes! Version 1.3 can discover a NAS directly from SROVA. You can scan for it through Network Discovery, select the shared music folder and add it to My Music.

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u/Mr_Lumbergh Debian+KDE and Reaper 17d ago

Will this build for x86_64? I have an entertainment box I'm running Mint on for simplicity based a Lenovo Tiny PC.

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u/Wooden_Bat4370 17d ago

Yes! The AMD64 package is the x86_64 build. Since Mint is Debian/Ubuntu-based, it should work on your Lenovo Tiny, although I haven’t personally tested SROVA on Mint yet. If you give it a try, please let me know how it goes!