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Re: A personal music streaming server that works

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Post by Semaphor » Fri, Jul 12, 2024, 9:13 AM UTC

bramhaag wrote: post #45

People who run this or something similar (Jellyfin, Plex, Navidrome, etc.), what do you use to easily add new music? Do you just log into Lidarr, or are there music players that have a nicer integration for this?

I buy music on Bandcamp, and copy the files over with SMB/Samba/network share.

Re: A personal music streaming server that works

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Post by cbxyp » Fri, Jul 12, 2024, 9:28 AM UTC

Koel is an awesome product and a great base for any music streaming app or home media server. I see people complaining about the app "costing" as much as a cup of coffee at Starbucks (it can be easily compiled freely yourself https://github.com/koel/player) or how it stacks up to Jellyfin which has a very lackluster interface for music files. Koel does a great job replicating the functionality of Spotify or iTunes with your music library. It is well written, easily customizable and extensible. Nothing even comes close to Koel when it comes to the self-hosted music server category in terms of UX. It may lack some features of Ampache but it's certainly preferable to use when compared to that solution. Music players aren't extremely complicated a ground-up rebuild in this area often makes sense.

Re: A personal music streaming server that works

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Post by skull723 » Fri, Jul 12, 2024, 9:31 AM UTC

I definitely like the dev's stance on pricing.

Re: A personal music streaming server that works

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Post by timrichard » Fri, Jul 12, 2024, 9:34 AM UTC

minhdanh72 wrote: post #2

I wish I could have such app to stream music from my NAS. This is very nice though!

I keep things simple on the serving side and just choose an appropriate client. I just use a NFS share on a Raspberry Pi with attached SSD to make FLAC files available on the network.

Playback is with Volumio on a Raspberry Pi that I have connected to the Hifi, Audivana on my Mac, and the nPlayer app on any iOS/Android devices. nPlayer is really great for video too.

Re: A personal music streaming server that works

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Post by gerjomarty » Fri, Jul 12, 2024, 9:39 AM UTC

I wonder if anyone knows if the mobile apps can cache music for offline listening? It's the only feature that's keeping me using YouTube Music's Uploads (formerly Google Play Music).

Re: A personal music streaming server that works

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Post by Semaphor » Fri, Jul 12, 2024, 9:47 AM UTC

gerjomarty wrote: post #55

I wonder if anyone knows if the mobile apps can cache music for offline listening? It's the only feature that's keeping me using YouTube Music's Uploads (formerly Google Play Music).

Symfonium [0] (which supports pretty much anything but koel) is a commercial android app, can cache & export, have rules for doing so automatically, supports a rolling cache, can decide via wifi connection if the cached or online version should be used. You can also choose if you want original files or transcoded ones.

[0]: https://symfonium.app/

Re: A personal music streaming server that works

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Post by tonyedwardspz » Fri, Jul 12, 2024, 11:14 AM UTC

Semaphor wrote: post #56

gerjomarty wrote: post #55

I wonder if anyone knows if the mobile apps can cache music for offline listening? It's the only feature that's keeping me using YouTube Music's Uploads (formerly Google Play Music).

Symfonium [0] (which supports pretty much anything but koel) is a commercial android app, can cache & export, have rules for doing so automatically, supports a rolling cache, can decide via wifi connection if the cached or online version should be used. You can also choose if you want original files or transcoded ones. [0]: https://symfonium.app/

+1 for Symphonium. It's a great app that makes self hosted music not feel sucky. I live offline first and can attestb to it's caching capabilities.

Re: A personal music streaming server that works

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Post by gerjomarty » Fri, Jul 12, 2024, 12:10 PM UTC

Semaphor wrote: post #56

gerjomarty wrote: post #55

I wonder if anyone knows if the mobile apps can cache music for offline listening? It's the only feature that's keeping me using YouTube Music's Uploads (formerly Google Play Music).

Symfonium [0] (which supports pretty much anything but koel) is a commercial android app, can cache & export, have rules for doing so automatically, supports a rolling cache, can decide via wifi connection if the cached or online version should be used. You can also choose if you want original files or transcoded ones. [0]: https://symfonium.app/

Thank you so much! Will be very happy to move to something that isn't YouTube Music.

Re: A personal music streaming server that works

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Post by phampyk » Fri, Jul 12, 2024, 12:27 PM UTC

rkwasny wrote: post #13

I really need something like this for video. Basically a simple website for kids where they can select from pre-approved youtube accounts/videos or upload additional conten. Anyone building sth like this?

YouTube archivist is what I would recommend for YouTube videos

Re: A personal music streaming server that works

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Post by DEADMINCEDOS » Fri, Jul 12, 2024, 12:43 PM UTC

It's still amazing there is just no all in one solution for viewing and sharing media between people. Having to hook Sonarr/radarr whatever into something to track indexers than a client then some kind of all in one interface that might not even be a media player....