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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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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…

Did you consider the outgoing traffic in the pricing or just storage?

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

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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…

Ibroadcast is amazing!

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

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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.

It would need to be more than that. $2 is about the cost storing 100GB on most cloud storage services, and that's before you pay for any egress or access fees.

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

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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.

Thats's a good idea! I think I will add a smaller plan later. Please check back soon (might take a few days, looks like I have lots of bugs to squash)! The prices are more or less a direct reflection of the potential fees so it should totally possible to do a small plan.

BTW I should also mention that if you don't pay after the trial, it never actually locks you out. I haven't coded that part yet and it I feel bad about charging for buggy software so it's more of a donation at the moment. So feel free to use it for free and contribute if you like it later on.

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

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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.

It would need to be more than that. $2 is about the cost storing 100GB on most cloud storage services, and that's before you pay for any egress or access fees.

My secret sauce is that I'm using B2 (Backblaze) + Cloudflare Workers to save on egress fees. I am thinking of switching to Cloudflare's storage thingy as well. But bandwidth is cheap, in exchange the download speeds are not so great (CF probably better).

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

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At that price the transaction fees are large. ~35 - 36 USD a year? Depends on what's going on and the volume. Probably no support or paid per incident support.

Common wisdom is that you can't bootstrap for less that $50 per customer per month, and at $100 it actually becomes a business that can grow. No one wanting to self-stream will pay that, so then you would need to look for investment to stay alive until you have scale.

That's 600 to 1200 USD a year per customer, an _entirely_ different class of service and relationship.

The completely different order of magnitude endpoint I was thinking of is much more like the sort of 'streamed remote file storage as a service' (using off the shelf tech and software with a tiny bit of maybe custom glue) and almost zero support; with you get what you pay for levels of congestion and peek usage pains as potential problems to complain to that greedy last mile ISP you were forced to use because it was cable or barely better than dialup DSL.

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

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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…

Did you consider the outgoing traffic in the pricing or just storage?

Traffic is "free" through one crazy trick, the Bandwidth Alliance (B2 + Cloudflare). I stole the idea from this blog post: https://jross.me/free-personal-image-hosting-with-backblaze-...
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