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I don't want streaming music, I just want to stream my music

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Re: I don't want streaming music, I just want to stream my music

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Post by bodge5000 »

cridenour wrote: post #129
bodge5000 wrote: post #126

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Does plex have anything for audiobooks (preferably streaming with the option to download locally)? I quit audible after they removed desktop support but I managed to get all my books out of their DRM, but right now they just sit on an external ssd and I have to manually load them onto whatever laptop I'm using (which also means they don't keep their place between devices)

Prologue for iOS is a Plex audiobook player that is better than any audiobook player has a right to be. Here's a good guide on how to set up Plex for proper metadata with audiobooks: https://github.com/seanap/Plex-Audiobook-Guide

I've never used plex so this might be completely out of the ordinary for even more normal plex use cases, but is there a web client?

I use Android, iPadOS, Fedora Linux, MacOS and possibly in the future Windows (my last job required it, my next job might too) and unless the standard plex app supports audiobooks I doubt I'll find much consistency using native apps for each of those operating systems, if they even exist on all of them

Re: I don't want streaming music, I just want to stream my music

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Post by WalterBright »

I don't understand why every digital music player cannot read shared files over a LAN, you have to set up a "server" for it to see them. Why do I need a server? Why can't it just read the !@#$%^&* files? After all, if I put the files on a usb stick it can read/play them.

It's not impossible, either, as the ancient Turtlebeach Audiotron could do just that.

P.S. I'd also pay for a Roku app that can read and display PDF files.

Re: I don't want streaming music, I just want to stream my music

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Post by brewdad »

tastysandwich wrote: post #82

Oh man I thought I was the only one who still had a carefully curated digital library... I threw out my CDs a long time ago, but my digital library is my baby. I've been curating this since I was 10. It's who I am! Most of the time, you only need to listen to music on your phone or your computer, right? My main collection (mostly FLAC) is on a NAS with RAID. But then I've got some scripts that maintain a copy of that…

I do the same thing only I keep opus files on my phone. They sound just as good as mp3 in my listening environment and take up even less space on my phone.

Re: I don't want streaming music, I just want to stream my music

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Post by userbinator »

I have a little script that takes keywords, queries YouTube's search, and starts playing through the results. It's a similar experience to listening to an actual radio station, complete with non-music and the occasional ad that I let through (and I filter out the excessively long "n-hour remixes"), although I can also skip to the next result and "change the channel", but most of the time it's just a background in the shop while doing other stuff. It logs what it played, so I can go back and "cache" anything I liked for future playback.

Re: I don't want streaming music, I just want to stream my music

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Post by ajdude »

cridenour wrote: post #129
bodge5000 wrote: post #126

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Does plex have anything for audiobooks (preferably streaming with the option to download locally)? I quit audible after they removed desktop support but I managed to get all my books out of their DRM, but right now they just sit on an external ssd and I have to manually load them onto whatever laptop I'm using (which also means they don't keep their place between devices)

Prologue for iOS is a Plex audiobook player that is better than any audiobook player has a right to be. Here's a good guide on how to set up Plex for proper metadata with audiobooks: https://github.com/seanap/Plex-Audiobook-Guide

Seconding Prologue. I have successfully listened to many audiobooks with it on Plex

Re: I don't want streaming music, I just want to stream my music

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Post by gigel82 »

bodge5000 wrote: post #126
ggm wrote: post #10

I paid for plex, I stream my own music from anywhere via the callback into my home net. I can chromecast, play in-car, whatever. If I have IP "it just works" Its backed on an RPI-4 NAS I built, running the plex arm linux code. I have another RPI-3 in the living room as a headless music source to an amp. In the past I've used HDMI to VGA+audio splitters to scatter output to devices. This is my music, on my disks, unde…

Does plex have anything for audiobooks (preferably streaming with the option to download locally)? I quit audible after they removed desktop support but I managed to get all my books out of their DRM, but right now they just sit on an external ssd and I have to manually load them onto whatever laptop I'm using (which also means they don't keep their place between devices)

I recommend https://www.audiobookshelf.org/ for self-host audiobooks; they have apps for Android and iOS (you need TestFlight for the iOS one though).

Re: I don't want streaming music, I just want to stream my music

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Post by gigel82 »

dopeboy wrote: post #78
adave wrote: post #72

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That's too much effort, don't you think.Maybe not for you but for general tech folks.

OP has a somewhat complicated setup. Here's an easier one that I use: * Pay $15/month for a VPS (whatbox in my case). * whatbox has a notion of first class apps, including Plex. Click a button in their GUI to install it. * drag and drop your music using whatbox's GUI file browser That's it.

You're scaring people away from selfhosting with that $15/month. There are plenty of cheaper options, including under-$1/month with a dedicated IPv4 and enough storage for thousands of songs (or hundreds if you're using flac): https://lowendbox.com/blog/1-vps-1-usd-vps-per-month/

Re: I don't want streaming music, I just want to stream my music

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Post by Krisjohn »

ggm wrote: post #10

I paid for plex, I stream my own music from anywhere via the callback into my home net. I can chromecast, play in-car, whatever. If I have IP "it just works" Its backed on an RPI-4 NAS I built, running the plex arm linux code. I have another RPI-3 in the living room as a headless music source to an amp. In the past I've used HDMI to VGA+audio splitters to scatter output to devices. This is my music, on my disks, unde…

I use Plexamp with a Wireguard tunnel back home. Biggest upgrade to my in-car music listening in years.

Re: I don't want streaming music, I just want to stream my music

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Post by bobsmooth »

Dalewyn wrote: post #51
rolenthedeep wrote: post #32

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It's certainly an option, but it lacks the flexibility most people have come to expect. Storing your media locally is fine, but you only have it when you're physically at your machine. To go portable you have to manage syncing files to an external device. Now you've got two libraries to manage. Yes, we lived with this kind of thing since digital music existed, but it was a pain then and it's a pain now. Keeping one c…

>To go portable you have to manage syncing files to an external device. Now you've got two libraries to manage. Just copying whatever music I want to listen to on the go and playing it back locally is far simpler and easier than dealing with Plex/Jellyfin, hosting a server, managing a VPN, and all the other sysadmin nonsense.

Installing Jellyfin is dead simple.

Re: I don't want streaming music, I just want to stream my music

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Post by skydhash »

WalterBright wrote: post #132

I don't understand why every digital music player cannot read shared files over a LAN, you have to set up a "server" for it to see them. Why do I need a server? Why can't it just read the !@#$%^&* files? After all, if I put the files on a usb stick it can read/play them. It's not impossible, either, as the ancient Turtlebeach Audiotron could do just that. P.S. I'd also pay for a Roku app that can read and display PDF…

I think there’s an app on Apple TV that can play files over smb. VLC does thats as well. I have macs and can play anything from my diy nas over smb as well. But I use Logitech Media Server, because I can control it from my phone, my tablet and my computers. And play through almost every speaker I have (airplay).
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