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Self hosting my media library with Jellyfin and Wireguard on Hetzner
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Re: Self hosting my media library with Jellyfin and Wireguard on Hetzner
#142For those who feel that self-hosting limits music discovery, a more traditional option is "radio" (traditional in the sense that you listen to a curated playlist made by someone else).
Radio Paradise [1] and Radio Swiss Pop/Jazz/Classic [2] are two great ad-free ways to discover new music. There are probably tons of others out there.
[1] https://www.radioparadise.com/ [2] https://www.radioswisspop.ch/en
Re: Self hosting my media library with Jellyfin and Wireguard on Hetzner
#143Nice. I self host using Navidrome, FreeBSD and Wireguard. I have a decent Fibre connection to my house and a static IP so it's "free" to serve. I primary do it because Spotify is basically sucking the life out of the music industry and I love heavy metal.
My media library is simply a directory on my Linux NAS, exported over NFS. No VPS, no Plex, no Jellyfin no Jellyfish, no Jelly donut, just NFS. If I want to listen to a song or play a movie, I just navigate to that directory and play it. Simplest system I could come up with.
Alas my work will not allow me to mount a random NFS share but I take your point, simplicity is a virtue.
Re: Self hosting my media library with Jellyfin and Wireguard on Hetzner
#144For those who feel that self-hosting limits music discovery, a more traditional option is "radio" (traditional in the sense that you listen to a curated playlist made by someone else). Radio Paradise [1] and Radio Swiss Pop/Jazz/Classic [2] are two great ad-free ways to discover new music. There are probably tons of others out there. [1] https://www.radioparadise.com/ [2] https://www.radioswisspop.ch/en
My other favorites, especially for coding, are SomaFM (Groove Salad or DEFCON substations)[1] and SceneSAT[2].
Re: Self hosting my media library with Jellyfin and Wireguard on Hetzner
#145Earlier quoted context omitted.
Of all the privacy concerns in my life these days, corporations knowing about my music taste is not cracking the top 1000. In fact Instagram ads have led me to discover some fantastic small artists, so I'll happily give that out to whoever cares. I'm sure it works fine if you've basically settled on what music you like and never listen to anything new, but if you do like to discover new music, self-hosting just isn't…
> if you do like to discover new music, self-hosting just isn't an option Sure it is. Music discovery via algorithmic services is not the only way. There's radio, talking to people who have similar interests, reading interviews with musicians who talk about other music they like, browsing selections at the library, reading books about music or musicians, even just reading the liner notes for an album, noticing some p…
My favorite artists are those that have come from personal recommendations.
Re: Self hosting my media library with Jellyfin and Wireguard on Hetzner
#146Earlier quoted context omitted.
Amazon Originals, Netflix Originals. Disney Originals. Paramount Originals. I'm just wondering what is different between series and music, that for music its very bad morally to create your own and to put your own in the front row. While for other streaming its accepted.
Good point. Music is much more personal, perhaps?
I'd agree with this. I'll seek out work by specific bands, their members and side projects. I'll do the same for actors in film and TV but Spotify is commissioning work from session musicians I have no relationship to and offering a fictitious name. I'm sure these musicians are capable, but I'd rather discover new, novel music — not something commissioned by a company for a specific mood or playlist. That feels antithetical to what makes music or art interesting.
Re: Self hosting my media library with Jellyfin and Wireguard on Hetzner
#147I recently made the same switch. Tailscale plus jellyfin is great. Threw in Immich too for good measure. I wanted a nice native client for Linux instead of using the web app so I wrote one in Rust. Shameless plug: https://github.com/Fingel/gelly
Do you have a recommendation for a Jellyfin client that does a good job for music, for either iOS or Android?
Finamp! https://github.com/jmshrv/finamp
Re: Self hosting my media library with Jellyfin and Wireguard on Hetzner
#148For those who feel that self-hosting limits music discovery, a more traditional option is "radio" (traditional in the sense that you listen to a curated playlist made by someone else). Radio Paradise [1] and Radio Swiss Pop/Jazz/Classic [2] are two great ad-free ways to discover new music. There are probably tons of others out there. [1] https://www.radioparadise.com/ [2] https://www.radioswisspop.ch/en
Some radio stations also record their (themed) programs and make them available as podcasts for a more on-demand experience.
Re: Self hosting my media library with Jellyfin and Wireguard on Hetzner
#149Earlier quoted context omitted.
Tidal has smaller library but higher quality (assuming your speakers allow you to tell the difference).
I doubt you can listen to the difference, unless you really have golden ears. We have been doing double blind test in HydrogenAudio.org for a while, and it shows most people won't notice (at certain levels of encoding). https://hydrogenaudio.org/index.php/board,40.0.html
I own the KEF LSX II speakers and I can hear a slight difference in sound clarity between Spotify and Tidal in acoustic songs like i.e. "landslide" by "Fleetwood Mac".
Note that Tidal is supported via "KEF Connect" or while Spotify is available through Chrome Streaming, not directly IIRC.
Is it worth the big price tag? Not sure tbh. I don't play music very loud and I don't listen all that much outside working hours where my attention is elsewhere.
Re: Self hosting my media library with Jellyfin and Wireguard on Hetzner
#150A couple of points missed for why Spotify is bad: - Paying musicians cheap wages to make boring music (ghost artists) for playlists they promote: https://harpers.org/archive/2025/01/the-ghosts-in-the-machin... - Not paying musicians anything at all if they don't have enough streams: https://www.engadget.com/spotify-confirms-it-wont-offer-payo... - Not preventing the deluge of AI-generated music flooding the platform:…
> Not paying musicians anything at all if they don't have enough streams
... 1000 plays in a year?
We're taking a handful of people (Close friends? A proud mother? The artist themselves?) listening a few times a week.
If an artist has no following, and creates music that listeners consider substitutable for AI slop or low-effort shovelware, then they are hobbyists with no reasonable right to renumeration?