Another solution that is surprisingly powerful is Logitech Media Server [0], which despite its name is open source and cross-platform. The server can run on any unix-ish machine, and clients can be any number of Raspberry Pis or ESP32s, or custom boxes, or any computer. Multiroom syncing is great. Works for local library and streaming. There is even a modern web interface available [1]. I looked into many of the other solutions in this thread, and LMS suited my needs best.
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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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/
Fair point. I was trying to emphasize the ease of use with my setup, not the price.
Re: I don't want streaming music, I just want to stream my music
#143I don't want to stream any music, I just want to carry my curated polytaxonomic music collection around with me. Wireless to my headset or wired if I want, an SD card can hold plenty.
Re: I don't want streaming music, I just want to stream my music
#144you can upload to youtube music (100,000 song limit though). the interface sucks (SO much worse than google music which google killed) and is filled with dark patterns. https://support.google.com/youtubemusic/answer/9716522?hl=en
I finally found a good enough replacement for Google Music in koel. It's a tiny server that runs in a docker container and it does anything that I cared about, which admittedly isn't overly complicated.
Re: I don't want streaming music, I just want to stream my music
#145I was dissatisfied with this whole situation for a long time. At the moment I just sync my library to my phone with syncthing and play with musicolet (which I saw recommended here on HN at some point). It's simple and it works. I'm 90% less frustrated with trying to listen to music.
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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).
+1 for this project and I’m currently testing out the built-in podcast server
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Jellyfin is excellent. Swapped to it from Plex about a year ago. Haven't looked back once. I run the server on an old M1 Mac Mini, it's the first time I've felt I have my own personal Netflix. I can stream 40gb 4k HDR Atmos rips to old stereo 1080p plasmas with ancient Firesticks (on wifi) in bedrooms in my house with almost zero delay, even when fast forwarding, and getting near realtime frame previews as you skip.…
have you been able to work out how to stream when you are not in LAN, like with tailscale or other overlay network?
Tailscale + Jellyfin + Finamp (iOS Jellyfin music client) has been a game-changer when not on my LAN
Re: I don't want streaming music, I just want to stream my music
#148Earlier 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)
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).
Seconding audiobookshelf. The web player and apps are both pretty good.
In general, I think a dedicated app for the content of interest typically works better than a general media server like Plex or Jellyfin. The same applies to books (Calibre/Calibre Web) and comics/manga (Komga).
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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 exis…
Yes, they have a web client, but their audiobook support is not great. Plex is primarily geared towards music (albums/tracks), and the podcast support is built on top of it by independent clients. I recommend Prologue for iOS and Chronicle for Android.
I've heard good things about audiobookshelf [1] as a cross-platform alternative, but it is pretty early in development.
Re: I don't want streaming music, I just want to stream my music
#150I have a synolgy nas and they have DS Audio that lets me stream my nearly 200 gigs of music anywhere in the world. I’ve had this for the past decade so when streaming music became a thing, yeah why would I bother. It’s pretty great butni wish they’d update the DS Audio app; it lacks a proper eq for one and the Ux could use a refresh (esp lack of dark mode, the white background at night is pretty annoying).
All I want the do is have DS audio play a random playlist of my music and it was garbage.
Strike 1, you have to play using playlists, and even if you choose to randomly play "all your music", it caps their playlist at something like 500 songs (can't remember exactly) so it didn't do the one primary use case of "play a random song from my library".
Strike 2, even in that subset of l my music, the playlist randomiser was super broken. I have no idea why, but the random distribution was anything but. Super grouped bias toward some songs over and over again...
I finally found a docker music server called koel which has a playlist generator that just works for my use case. the playlist it generates is still capped, but the list is actually a reasonable random distribution.