Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

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

coryd.dev

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

151–160 of 421 posts

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

#151

Post by Cyph0n »

pohuing wrote: post #88
dopeboy wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Wow $15 a month? What's in that box, you're not just using it for some music streaming right? I've got my reverse proxy running on a 3.45€ instance from hetzner and I can't imagine you need much more for some music streaming right?

The name of the service they use is a bit of a giveaway :)

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

#152

Post by pfffft »

jsd1982 wrote: post #75
pfffft wrote: post #30

In the article he mentions using Meta for batch editing mp3 tags. Is anyone aware of similar applications for PC? Suggestions appreciated

foobar2000

Unfortunately foobar seems to have a hard time with some albums using freedb. It is an excellent application tho I'm always happy to see people mention it.

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

#154

Post by weq »

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 have music constantly on in my life, but you know what, i really hate hearing the same songs over and over again. I used to leech music and have a collection of it (i still do) but i prefer humans mixing it up, in random orders, with different sythns, styles or vibes over it. So while i have never subscribed to any streaming services, i do subscribe to DI.FM. I get access from any device i have, as many as i want, and instead of scouring the net constantly for new music, i now just feed off the bounty. They have sister stations for all styles.

Literly i have music on all day everyday. I have different styles for different moods, times of the day, emotions. When you listen at that rate, you either love repeats or you spend your whole life looking for the next song. Curating a playlist is most of the battle.

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

#155

Post by grose »

I tried to make this after Google Play Music died, but I never found any success.

Here's my site. You can try it for free: https://inter.tube

It supports almost all of Subsonic (highly recommend play:Sub on iOS). FLAC works. I never re-encode your songs, they are kept byte-for-byte. It doesn't support Last.fm (yet?) but I don't think it would be too hard to add. It respects metadata tags. There are still some glitches, and the web player kind of sucks. You can (batch) edit metadata on the web but it does not change the file, just the web/API interfaces.

To be honest I have mostly lost motivation to work on this, but I was aiming at exactly the pain points the author of this article describes. Send me an email (profile) or tweet/comment if you think it's worth pursuing again.

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

#157

Post by qbasic_forever »

rtpg wrote: post #41
qbasic_forever wrote: post #14

Amazon used to offer exactly that kind of service. You could upload your own music files or get them automatically when your purchased an album (digitally or physically), then play them from a web player or locally installed client app. It worked great, so of course they killed it and now you can only listen to music they license/allow streaming.

I can still buy mp3s off of Amazon and download them. Maybe this is dependent on the country?

This was different, Amazon allowed you to upload any of your own music and stream it from them. You didn't have to buy the music from them, it could have been old mp3s you downloaded from Napster ages ago for example.

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

#158

Post by dreamcompiler »

jrm4 wrote: post #99

Generally, I hate the experience of streaming from a service. Occasionally to discover, but youtube's good enough for that. For me, the greatest unsung innovation was the car USB player. That took it from the 10 CD's or so to basically whatever I want, however I want. As for streaming my music, I was an MPD user for years, but the client/server experience was often fiddly. Once I discovered mstream (one very good web…

> For me, the greatest unsung innovation was the car USB player. That took it from the 10 CD's or so to basically whatever I want, however I want.

Amen. I only need my music on my phone with earbuds, and in the car. So I copied it all to a 128GB USB stick, which sounds better and is less finicky than bluetooth. If I add a new song or album to the master library on my computer, I just pull the USB stick and rsync it.

The only problem is the Tesla USB music player has a terrible UI, but I set it to play random songs from my library and that's usually good enough.

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

#159

Post by Helmut10001 »

I use Funkwhale [1] internally. It is such a beautiful designed interface and it makes listening to my music fun again. Funkwhale also honors a carefully curated music collection (I use MusicBrainz); my MP3s are mounted read-only; I can share my Music with family-members; it is Album-focused, which is more in line with my listening habits (I don't want a random stream of different artists, I like to listen to a single album, the way artists arranged their tracks etc.); although, I do use playlists sometimes.

My family members have an "MP3" folder in Nextcloud and when they add music, Funkwhale is set up to automatically scan their bind-mounts for change and add music.

Currently, the library has about 16000 MP3s (mostly bought, some ccby, some music from games I bought, some digitized audio-cds - I try to by MP3 from bandcamp, if available).

For multi-room-audio, I use Iris+Mopidy+Snapcast [2] as an alternative frontend to my Funkwhale library, via API.

[1]: https://funkwhale.audio/

[2]: https://github.com/jaedb/Iris

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

#160

Post by EamonnMR »

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 expose everything as a Samba share and stream with VLC. But nowdays most of my music purchases are on Bandcamp so I use their app (which has a nice interface for saving stuff to your phone) a lot of the time. I usually spin albums so playlists aren't really a concern.
Post reply on HN