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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 ashishb »

After the demise of Google Play Music a few years back, I built a replacement for myself. If I had offered an option to store music, someone would have to bear the cost. Either I would have to make a product that eventually monetizes (or shuts down) or I'll have to make it a paid product making it out of reach for the masses. So, I decided that users should be able to use their cloud storage (Google Drive) to store their music. This keeps my cloud costs to a minimum.

The initial goal was only to support music. But users told me how they love using it for audiobooks! So many new features were added like preserving progress, playback speed, the ability to see total media duration in a folder, add files to a queue, the ability to add files directly from the web, etc.

Now, there are rumors circulating that Google might kill Google Podcasts (for the second time!). As someone who loves listening to podcasts, this time I decided to go ahead and pre-emptively add podcast support to MusicSync.

Please give it a try and let me know what you guys think.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.ashishb.an...

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

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Post by alt227 »

endigma wrote: post #23
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…

Jellyfin is an emby fork, not Plex.

Emby was also a plex fork, so its kinds the same?

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

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Post by no_time »

kvirani wrote: post #164
grose wrote: post #155

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 glitche…

This is awesome. Why do you think you never found success with it?

The people who can work soulseek and/or cdparanoia are plenty capable of hosting their own streaming platform. Atleast now in 2023 I think.

It's a cool project nonetheless. I'd love to be proven wrong.

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

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Post by dangravell »

Sakos wrote: post #229
grose wrote: post #155

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 glitche…

I really like this. I'd say the only thing I'm missing is being able to make custom playlists like Spotify. I think there are plenty of people who still have their own music that might find this useful, but I have no idea how you might reach these people. edit: I may have found a bug? I uploaded multiple remixes of a song and it only shows the original version. I don't see a way to see what raw files are being stored…

> I have no idea how you might reach these people

Being in the same market, and being frustrated my service isn't even mentioned on this page despite being mentioned in the OP, I'm interested: how would _you_ find out about this? Would you search for it? Would you expect to see it advertised somewhere?

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Post by alt227 »

VonGuard wrote: post #52
rolenthedeep wrote: post #25

I use Jellyfin, it's about the same thing as Plex, but free. I host it on my homelab along with a half dozen other services, and I can stream any of my media from anywhere. There's even pretty nice third-party clients. I use finamp on android, it's specifically a music player frontend for jellyfin, and has options to download your files and play offline. So far, the biggest problem is simply learning how to find musi…

Would you believe that SoulSeek is still a thing? It is. P2P 4evah.

Soulseek seems to be still around because it was adopted by serious music lovers who are also techies. Browsing the libraries of some of the users on there can be breathtaking as to the size of libraries and amount of care in curating and categorising them. I dont think anything bette came along so people are just still there sharing their libraries.

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Post by HollowEyes »

thot_experiment wrote: post #219

what if, and I know this is totally insane/impossible but what if there were some sort of a small non volatile memory type card you could put into a phone with a large amount of storage and then you could put music files on it and just always have them with you! you could even combine that with like some sort of copper conduit to an ear-speaker and then you could have music in very high fidelity and never ever worry…

I dicked about with jellyfin server and an old android phone connected to a stereo for remote play. Almost good, but WiFi and battery save kicked in and play was spurious. Transcoded library to opus, shoved on the memory card. Turned on airplane mode. Jobs a goodun.

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

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Post by dandare »

grose wrote: post #155

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 glitche…

I was looking for a service like this, Can I stream from inter.tube to Sonos?

Also, I a smaller plan would be welcome, I pay $2 to google for 100GB, I would welcome it here too.

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

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Post by stenardo »

ibroadcast wrote: post #171

Hi Cory, We feel your pain! We are in the same position as you and this is exactly why we exist! We scrobble to Last.fm, have native apps for iOS and Android, a web based player for the computer, and tons of device support in one form or another – Chromecast, Alexa, Roku, Apple TV, Android TV, and more! Our core, free service gives you unlimited access to all your music, device support, and no limitations on uploadin…

I was looking for someone mentioning it! After the death of Google Play Music, iBroadcast became my favorite player! It has everything I need

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Post by alt227 »

siquick wrote: post #121
sen wrote: post #119

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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! You’re definitely not alone. I’ve been collecting MP3s since they first began, choosing 1-2 songs a night to leave downloading over dialup. I still have ever MP3 I ever downloaded short of deleting the f…

Have you ever bought any of that music you prize?

Music itself has no value now, streaming services killed that. If you like an artist go to their shows and buy their merch, thats how artists make money these days.

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

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Post by globular-toast »

I feel like there's a lot of meaning hidden in the word "streaming" that I don't fully understand. Surely every player under the sun can play back from a network location? What actually is this "streaming" thing? If we could fully describe the problem maybe it would be easier to come up with a solution.
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