I have an old android xiaomi phone with 128 GB of storage that I want to use as a music streaming server that I can access from my current phone and computer.

I want to know if this is possible and if it is, can it be done without rooting?

  • dastanktal [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    4 days ago

    If you’re hoping to use your phone as is and just install a “server app” onto it to use as a streaming service, I have some bad news for you.

    That’s definitely not gonna work. If you think you’re gonna be able to run a server without root, that’s also probably not going to work.

    You’re most likely going to have to install a custom ROM onto your phone or some version of Linux onto your phone in order to do the thing you want to do.

    I don’t have much knowledge of it, but the Android communities will probably be the better place to reach out about running a server from a phone

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        4 days ago

        No, I totally understand that, but for the thing you’re doing, if you take away piracy, you’re just trying to run a server on an Android phone, so you’re gonna find better results in an Android forum from sysadmins who want to run a server.

        People get nervous with torrenting and pirating, so when you go on the Android forums, don’t mention that’s the reason you’re looking for this.