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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
#122I 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?
I use Manet on iOS
Re: Self hosting my media library with Jellyfin and Wireguard on Hetzner
#123Does anyone have a good solution for Jellyfin with tiered storage? I’d like to store my media as encrypted blobs in object storage and then materialize it on disk when I’m about to watch it (manually queued or e.g. next episode).
Re: Self hosting my media library with Jellyfin and Wireguard on Hetzner
#1246 EUR per month really ain't much but then 80 GB of SSD is really not much for a media library.
FWIW I both rip, losslessly and verifiably, my own CDs to FLAC (lossless but compressed), I run Plex (tried JellyFin and going to switch) and yet I still pay for Qobuz (I don't see why I'd pay for Spotify when lossless streaming services like Tidal and Qobuz do exist: additionally Qobuz allows to buy DRM-free song individually).
Now, and that is not a snark: I both rent dedicated servers since decades now and run Proxmox at home.
I thought "self-hosting" meant hosting on your very own hardware, at your place (e.g. from your home).
If hosting on a rented virtual server is "self-hosting", then I take it hosting on a rented dedicated server is self-hosting too? But then what's the difference between a company renting servers and deploying its apps there? That one is registered as, say, a LLC and that the other is an individual?
So "self-hosting" depends on whether you're an individual or a company?
Sounds like a weird definition of "self-hosting" to me.
Re: Self hosting my media library with Jellyfin and Wireguard on Hetzner
#125Spotify is the only streaming service I still pay for, and I will continue to pay for, because: 1. The catalog is comprehensive. I listen to far more music than I could afford to own. 2. There are no advertisements in the paid service. 3. Their music discovery algorithm is excellent. I also appreciate the yearly statistics, and how they continue to add value for me. Podcasts and eBooks being added to the platform was…
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).
Re: Self hosting my media library with Jellyfin and Wireguard on Hetzner
#126Nice. 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.
That’s fine, but with something like Jellyfin you get multi-platform apps (including tvOS and android tv etc), tracking of progress within a movie or tv series, play next etc.
Re: Self hosting my media library with Jellyfin and Wireguard on Hetzner
#127A 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:…
Also, the UX is deliberately user-hostile.
Its only use case seems to be algorithm playlist. It’s an atrocious music player any other way.
Re: Self hosting my media library with Jellyfin and Wireguard on Hetzner
#128A 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:…
I mostly only use spotify for discovery, using either discovery weekly or starting a radio stream from a particular song. Is there another service that treats artists better that I can use instead for this purpose?
Re: Self hosting my media library with Jellyfin and Wireguard on Hetzner
#129Does anyone have a good solution for Jellyfin with tiered storage? I’d like to store my media as encrypted blobs in object storage and then materialize it on disk when I’m about to watch it (manually queued or e.g. next episode).
Just shooting in the dark, but could you use rclone somehow?
Re: Self hosting my media library with Jellyfin and Wireguard on Hetzner
#130Earlier quoted context omitted.
I want to love qobuz but their ux is horrible as is discovery and they suffer the same problem the others do with their supplied catalog being flooded in fake songs attached to real artists as “ft.). Qobuz is one of the only places I’ve found to buy drm free music for some artists I follow.
> I want to love qobuz but their ux is horrible I did not find this to be the case. Someone gave me a few months trial on them recently and I found the interface to be the only one out of the streaming services to give a shit about customers that prefer listening to albums. None of the other major streaming services I've tried do. (not Apple, Spotify, nor Tidal). My only real knock on them has been their catalog seem…
UX is okay but the search functionality, which is definitely part of the UX, sucks fat balls on Qobuz.
But Qobuz is still king. I gladly pay their monthly subscription even though their programmers can't even be bothered to code a proper search functionality (that is: unless you enter precisely, with every single character being correct, the name of what you're looking for, Qobuz won't find it... And then weird, just plain weird non-matching matches do show up).
But I don't despair: I take it that at some point they'll find the time to figure out how to implement a better song/artist/track search functionality.