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Re: Blackcandy: Self hosted music streaming server

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Post by Vaslo »

appel wrote: post #193
sovietmudkipz wrote: post #171

I love self hosting useful apps. I wish finding more things was easier. Right now I self host a jellyfin server and home assistant. When I learned a subscription for home security was $75/mo I said “there has to be something out there” and there was. I pay the developer their $6/mo even though everything works without it. Jellyfin has been amazing for physical media backups. It’s nice to experience old VHSes and DVDs…

> When I learned a subscription for home security was $75/mo I said “there has to be something out there” and there was. Can I ask what it was you found?

Have you looked at Konnected? Really great if you already have a system installed but dead like I do.

Re: Blackcandy: Self hosted music streaming server

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Post by Vaslo »

vlovich123 wrote: post #197
TomK32 wrote: post #190

Earlier quoted context omitted.

nginx-proxy becomes almost a must have if you have multiple services and prefer remembering domain names instead of port numbers https://github.com/nginx-proxy/nginx-proxy

Why not just have a main page on a single domain that has links to all the services? That way you only need to remember one domain name.

You could do that as long as you protected that page from prying eyes.

Re: Blackcandy: Self hosted music streaming server

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Post by KomoD »

Vaslo wrote: post #202
vlovich123 wrote: post #197

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why not just have a main page on a single domain that has links to all the services? That way you only need to remember one domain name.

You could do that as long as you protected that page from prying eyes.

Yeah? That would apply to NGINX Proxy too...

Re: Blackcandy: Self hosted music streaming server

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Post by WXLCKNO »

nfriedly wrote: post #129
bitvoid wrote: post #2

I've been using Plex (connecting via Tailscale) with their Plexamp music player. It's been working pretty well, but I might have to give this a try to compare. Although, it's not clear from the GitHub README or the Apple App Store listing if the mobile app allows you to download music for offline listening.

Also using Plex and Plexamp, and very happy with that combo. Curious about why talescale is needed - I'm on a static IP, but I believe Plex also provides a forwarding service (?) I think you were talking about Blackcandy in the second paragraph, but just to be clear, Plexamp does allow downloading for offline listening.

It's free, extremely easy (not that port forwarding is complicated) and you don't need to port forward.

I point DNS records on my personal domain to tailscale IPs so it some subdomains can only be accessed when connected to tailscale, I can do app.mydomain.com etc without exposing anything online.

Re: Blackcandy: Self hosted music streaming server

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Post by robohoe »

appel wrote: post #193
sovietmudkipz wrote: post #171

I love self hosting useful apps. I wish finding more things was easier. Right now I self host a jellyfin server and home assistant. When I learned a subscription for home security was $75/mo I said “there has to be something out there” and there was. I pay the developer their $6/mo even though everything works without it. Jellyfin has been amazing for physical media backups. It’s nice to experience old VHSes and DVDs…

> When I learned a subscription for home security was $75/mo I said “there has to be something out there” and there was. Can I ask what it was you found?

Heck you can even cobble stuff together with Home Assistants and various door/window/presence/water/humidity sensors. I was able to build a notification system when doors, windows, or fence gates are open. Same with panic buttons that alert my SO if any of us need assistance when putting kids to bed without whipping out the phones.

All of that can be loaded into HASS using a $26 Sonoff Zigbee dongle and various Zigbee devices like Aqara and others.

Re: Blackcandy: Self hosted music streaming server

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Post by iAMkenough »

Capricorn2481 wrote: post #192
Otternonsenz wrote: post #163

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because a person might be willing: -to directly support artists with buying the albums or songs at full price, rather than letting Spotify barely pay artists anything for their music (especially independent ones without industry connections) -knowing you own your library and that once you’ve purchased media, there is nothing to take it away other than the sands of time taking back its silicate -one does not need unli…

> to directly support artists with buying the albums or songs at full price, rather than letting Spotify barely pay artists anything for their music (especially independent ones without industry connections) You can't post an open source project on this site without half the thread speculating that you're a grifting sociopath. <1% are going to pay for music on here.

90% of statistics are made up

Re: Blackcandy: Self hosted music streaming server

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Post by cbzbc »

happymellon wrote: post #60
gloosx wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Self hosted music service doesn't necessarily imply new music discovery problems, because a lot of people still discover music the old non-algorithmic way, by being interested in certain genres, studying labels and artists and going through their albums, adding to their collection what they would love to hear again. Buying and owning the song/album somehow brings me more satisfaction than paying a monthly fee for a s…

The algorithms have never introduced me to a new song. They always try to mash up things I've heard before, which is disappointing because I can often go to "similar artists" in Spotify and after drilling down a couple of levels, find new artists. But Spotify will never suggest it until I listen to a song at least once and even then it will only recommended that one song. I still do most of my discovery by looking at…

> The algorithms have never introduced me to a new song.

Nearly the same for me, the algorithm has introduced me to a new artist once, ever (and that was the old Google Play service which is no longer available).

Most of the time it creates playlists which are as someone described 'radio curated by the worst version of myself'.

My music discovery is via genre specific radio, a few review magazines, and exploring similar artists via reddit or allmusic.

Re: Blackcandy: Self hosted music streaming server

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Post by nsteel »

carb wrote: post #44
sshagent wrote: post #27

I'm currently using icecast and ices to host a music stream. It'll effectively stream music to a port, and multiple clients can enjoy. Anyone doing something similar, I'd like to migrate to something more modern.

I think that's still pretty modern. My stream setup uses liquidsoap to generate HLS files which are served as a livestream directly from Tigris/S3. But a lot of users of liquidsoap still use the icecast output I think.

I can see why someone looking to easily handle massive scale wants HLS, but why is it useful here?

Re: Blackcandy: Self hosted music streaming server

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Post by 63stack »

vlovich123 wrote: post #197
TomK32 wrote: post #190

Earlier quoted context omitted.

nginx-proxy becomes almost a must have if you have multiple services and prefer remembering domain names instead of port numbers https://github.com/nginx-proxy/nginx-proxy

Why not just have a main page on a single domain that has links to all the services? That way you only need to remember one domain name.

Easier to wire up services to each other with domain names, serviceA.domain.tld is obvious, domain.tld:1234 is not
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