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Re: Blackcandy: Self hosted music streaming server

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Post by nfriedly »

lakomen wrote: post #110

Hmm.. I have a different use case. There are 7 years of a radio show with daily recordings of about 2-3 hours in length, including images. About 400GB in size. It used to all be hosted on a heavily ad plastered Drupal site, but I took it down a few years ago, because reasons. I would like to make the archive available to the public, it would be such a waste to delete it. When I write available, I mean via a website.…

This isn't quite what you're asking for, but sticking a copy on archive.org for the folks who want to download the whole thing might be a good idea.

Re: Blackcandy: Self hosted music streaming server

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Post by jmathai »

hbosch wrote: post #117
crossroadsguy wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

OK, I will ask. I presume you purchased all those music files that you host on that certain server, didn’t you? I will also assume that there is no tool that lets you acquire music MP3s (or some appropriate file type which is non-audiophile listenable) the Linux ISO way (without having to hunt them songs one by one), right? I am talking about someone already having a Spotify/apple music playlists/likes/favourites. Al…

>OK, I will ask. I presume you purchased all those music files that you host on that certain server, didn’t you? I self-host my music streaming with Plex, and I'll go ahead and admit to you that no -- not all of my music is paid for. >Also, these self hosted music services mean — no new music reco/discover, right? I've discovered more music, and more interesting music, through my Plex server in 6 months than I have o…

What site is this? I miss some sites from 15+ years ago which let people post bootlegs.

Re: Blackcandy: Self hosted music streaming server

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Post by oliwarner »

Lyrion should get a mention. It's a brand fork of Logitech Media Server, aka squeezeboxserver aka slimserver.

It has multi-room, quite broad hardware support and support for Spotify, Chromecast, etc through plugins. There are also a few DIY devices you can run squeezelite on to add cheap, good players.

Re: Blackcandy: Self hosted music streaming server

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Post by austin-cheney »

emmanueloga_ wrote: post #8

I’ve been searching for services that host personal music collections, but there doesn’t seem to be much available. I came across a product called Vox [1], which I might try. There are also plenty of self-hosted projects of varying quality (but I hadn’t seen Black Candy before). I'd like a service where I can upload a large folder of MP3s, and it would help organize them into albums, perform useful processing like Re…

All you need is this:

1. Self-hosted web server with local file system access to your media.

2. One HTML page that I will generate for you. This page will contain a media player and a play list of your media files.

With this approach the solution is ridiculously simple, but you are at the mercy of the client device web browser for media codec/container support. For audio this is not so restricting but for video this is really restricting.

The application that generates that one HTML page for you is this: https://github.com/prettydiff/mp3-master-list

It is a Node.js application and you will need to run npm install in the application directory before the other commands will work.

Enjoy!

Re: Blackcandy: Self hosted music streaming server

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Post by pimeys »

Touche wrote: post #126

What do people use for a NAS nowadays?

I've been using TrueNAS for six years already. I've built a custom server

- Intel dual core Atom CPU

- Passive cooling for the CPU, two fans for the HDDs

- A small Supermicro motherboard with IPMI and six SATA connectors

- 16 gigabytes of ECC RAM

- Six 14 terabyte hard disks

- Fractal Design Node case

- ZFS with RAIDz2

But this setup is getting old, I've had a few errors already from the CPU. My plan next year is to build a rack server with a modern AMD Ryzen CPU, 64 GB of RAM, Proxmox with TrueNAS scale in a virtual machine and re-use the disks I have in the current setup.

Proxmox is much nicer for virtual machines and LXC, and if you need Docker, you can run them in the TrueNAS Scale VM.

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