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Jellyfin as a Spotify alternative

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Re: Jellyfin as a Spotify alternative

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Post by PaulDavisThe1st »

crtasm wrote: post #117
alisonatwork wrote: post #100

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I've never used Spotify so can't compare to that, but Bandcamp is like a much better version of the local record store. You can follow artists and record labels you like, which will give you email notifications whenever they release something. You can browse new and old music by all kinds of esoteric tags and subgenres. Every week or so you get an email of some new releases in your favorite genres. You can download i…

>credit card gets charged a bunch of times I avoid this by buying the virtual gift cards and redeeming them on my own account

I imagine that this also avoids any credit card foreign currency fees?

Re: Jellyfin as a Spotify alternative

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Post by sunflowerfly »

russelg wrote: post #124
smj-edison wrote: post #103

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What do you do for backups? I'm just setting up an Emby instance with a 4 TB hard drive attached, but I'm worried it'll fail and take everything with it.

Is there really a point in backing up media? Unless you've ripped it yourself, I'm sure anything you have is easily obtainable again.

A lot of my media are home movies.

Re: Jellyfin as a Spotify alternative

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Post by PaulDavisThe1st »

makeitdouble wrote: post #66
HumblyTossed wrote: post #38

I self host Navidrome. Works pretty well.

Do you use a local client that accepts caching/offline playback of the content ? I'm looking through the android clients and none seem to fully embrace keeping the most played tracks on device ("offline mode"). Tempo[0] has in on the wip list, while StreamMusic straight removed in it the latest update[1], so as of now it looks like a pretty tough feature to get. Listening to music in remote places is nice, and that w…

Every couple of years, I buy a used Sansa Clip+ from ebay to replace the previous one that suffered physical damage. I transfer over the 128GB/256GB sd card. Voila - entire music collection in the size of a box of matches, no need for data connections, or a working phone, or fumbling with a screen when I'm working out.

Re: Jellyfin as a Spotify alternative

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Post by PaulDavisThe1st »

izacus wrote: post #47
temp0826 wrote: post #24

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Afaik it's not terribly good to the artists. One of my favorite bands left the platform; I'm not there yet but if it happens en masse (or at least enough to effect me noticeably) then I'm out too.

What's the alternative for the authors?

Bandcamp, for one. That's the easiest, biggest, smoothest.

Re: Jellyfin as a Spotify alternative

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Post by mixmastamyk »

tastysandwich wrote: post #141

For music, Navidrome is superior. It is just crazy how easy it is to set this stuff up nowadays. I run both Navidrome and Jellyfin in docker containers. Then I use NordVPN Meshnet to securely connect to them outside of the home. The experience is absolutely flawless. In Navidrome you can host an entire FLAC library and then transcode to Opus on the fly. It's been over a year now and I have pretty much no issues whats…

Do you mean Opus?

Re: Jellyfin as a Spotify alternative

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Post by flkenosad »

itissid wrote: post #121
flessner wrote: post #116

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For "content subscriptions" (Spotify, YouTube, Netflix) keep in mind that a part of the revenue goes towards the content creators. For anything else, I can also highly recommend using local or self-hosted software. Plenty of open source software has even exceeded proprietary alternatives in the last couple years.

You know if we could this open source self hosted stuff with a layer of Patreon on top people would pay something to all the people. If one could make it non-intrusive it could become a decent alternative to paying all these artists. I think Kanopy.com comes pretty close, its funded by tax payer dollars and is available via your local library.

Yes we absolutely could and should.

Re: Jellyfin as a Spotify alternative

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Post by al_borland »

russelg wrote: post #124
smj-edison wrote: post #103

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What do you do for backups? I'm just setting up an Emby instance with a 4 TB hard drive attached, but I'm worried it'll fail and take everything with it.

Is there really a point in backing up media? Unless you've ripped it yourself, I'm sure anything you have is easily obtainable again.

Some things are popular in the moment and very hard to come by 10-20 years later if they aren’t pretty popular. TV shows especially.

I’ve been considering buying some of those giant DVD lots that come up on Craigslist from time to time, or checking out flea markets for good deals.

With the way things are heading, one of my fears is I will get old and lose access to some of the shows are movies I loved in my youth. Licensing with streaming services are so fickle, and some others are removed or edited if they around found to be politically incorrect a decade or two after being made. I want to make sure I still have access to the original versions.

I do often wish I was one of those people who didn’t care, and could be happy with an iPad as my main computer, but it’s not in the cards for me.

Re: Jellyfin as a Spotify alternative

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Post by jjulius »

crossroadsguy wrote: post #46

My problem stays the same — finding all my music that is on Spotify from elsewhere. It costs a lot to buy those music files and that too if they are available (which isn’t always the case) and even after I buy I am not sure what were the T&C from that particular place I bought - whether I really own it, I don’t, a bit but not fully - etc. Finding from Linux ISO sites is a nightmare and an extra bad nightmare if we ar…

>It costs a lot to buy those music files...

And the artists and everyone who worked on it thank you very much for paying for an album/song instead of just paying a streaming subscription fee.

Re: Jellyfin as a Spotify alternative

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Post by jjulius »

rappatic wrote: post #127

At least in the case of a music player, self-hosting simply isn't good enough for me. I'm not willing to accept a single second of added latency or buffering or downtime because I don't have multimillion dollar server farms. The fact is that the vast majority of us don't have the resources to self-host a Jellyfin instance that can provide near-instantaneous access anywhere in the world to every song ever made at 320k…

>I'm not willing to accept a single second of added latency or buffering or downtime...

>... near-instantaneous access anywhere in the world to every song ever...

Nobody needs this. You think you do, but nobody needs everything everywhere all at once. If being wholly unwilling to wait "a single second" isn't sarcasm, then... yeesh.

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