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Re: Blackcandy: Self hosted music streaming server

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Post by Tallain »

jesterson wrote: post #279
paxys wrote: post #227

I have tried every music playing option under the sun for the last 15 years and am now happily back to creating playlists on my computer and periodically dragging them to my phone's local storage. There is still no better overall experience.

Sam here. I used to have huge library of MP3 tracks to listen while driving, but as car multimedia systems evolve, now I pull music videos from youtube and enjoy "selfhosted" VH1 (for those who know). Too sad modern VH1 is a shadow of it's past, broadcasting stupid shows instead of great music (please allow me to be a grumpy uncle here). This approach requires way lot more space (even if I pull videos in 1024x768, wh…

So I understand correctly, you're watching music videos in your car while you drive?

Re: Blackcandy: Self hosted music streaming server

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Post by Intermernet »

windexh8er wrote: post #213
TomK32 wrote: post #190

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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

Most people will use nginx-proxy [0] or Traefik [1] for front ending home labs with LetsEncrypt certs... Beyond that people will protect them with things like Tailscale [2], Cloudflare Tunnels [3] or even just mTLS [4] for protected access. Home labbing today has a lot of amazing software and it's hard to keep up! And as for dashboarding [5] on top of all this there are a lot of options. Also, for those new to the ga…

Can I suggest giving Caddy a go? I used to do everything with nginx but as soon as I found caddy I haven't looked back.

Re: Blackcandy: Self hosted music streaming server

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Post by pimeys »

doublepg23 wrote: post #258
crossroadsguy wrote: post #90

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RED and OPS are sadly not even a faint and distant shadow of WCD.

Only one way to fix that!

And it's much better now than it used to be. Of course the amount of people in these forums is much smaller, but all of them are very much music nerds. So you get very good tips for what to listen from them.

Re: Blackcandy: Self hosted music streaming server

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Post by at_a_remove »

This looks interesting for an eventual project.

I want to separate out music into groups, then into shuffleable playlists. I would eventually stream each to one of those local FM transmitters so I could build a few radio stations for my mother, who is absolutely terrible with technology and, at eighty, is not likely to get better. I am figuring a late Fifties/early Sixties (stuff she won dance competitions to), then your basic angry music starting around the mid-eighties (Killing Joke's "Eighties," a few Ministry albums, NIN) and on, a classic rock "station," and now, disturbingly, a yacht rock playlist. Then she can just jump around as needed.

Re: Blackcandy: Self hosted music streaming server

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Post by Havoc »

gigatexal wrote: post #278
Havoc wrote: post #272

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People are fed up with subscriptions and things like minipcs and docker have made this all very accessible

(Are you havoc from the JB community?) I agree! I just don’t know if this would pass the wife test. All of our music and photos and videos tc etc being hosted by me where I could potentially lose everything. All the work needed to properly store enough backups and test upgrades and maintain things I just figure the tens of dollars I spend monthly to host this stuff for me in iCloud and other places is worth it.

Nope - not familiar with JB community so must be someone else. Just got lucky on hn grabbing a nice nickname early.

Re wife test - yeah music selfhost is a risky one. People get really grumpy when they can't get their tunes

Re: Blackcandy: Self hosted music streaming server

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Post by internet_points »

itm wrote: post #109
majkinetor wrote: post #63

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I have chosen jelly over it because of the way navi stores music. I prefer to organize music in folders myself, and tag them with picard. Jelly then just shows everything nicely with 0 configuration.

https://github.com/epoupon/lms is another (Open)Subsonic compatible server that supports directory browsing commands. But actually few clients use them.

I've been using https://github.com/sentriz/gonic – how does lms compare to other (open)subsonic servers?

Re: Blackcandy: Self hosted music streaming server

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Post by internet_points »

seszett wrote: post #51
crossroadsguy wrote: post #49

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OK, I will ask. I presume you purchased all those music files that you host on that certain server, didn’t you? I will also assume that there is no tool that lets you acquire music MP3s (or some appropriate file type which is non-audiophile listenable) the Linux ISO way (without having to hunt them songs one by one), right? I am talking about someone already having a Spotify/apple music playlists/likes/favourites. Al…

Not OP, but gonic is very lightweight and takes little resources. It lives on a machine that serves a few websites and also hosts my photos with photoprism (by far the most resource intensive service on this server). It's a basic N100 machine with 8GB RAM. As for my music, although I own a physical copy of most of it that I bought legally, I downloaded almost everything through bittorrent as is easier than ripping CD…

How many TB of photos can you comfortably have in photoprism? I mostly use date-systems, so I could turn off the "ai" if that's resource-intensive.

Can it "stream" previews and then offer full-size downloads? (I'm looking for something that can offer previews + downloads so I can quickly find photos from my home archive when I'm out with my laptop or phone)

Re: Blackcandy: Self hosted music streaming server

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Post by DavideNL »

dustinsterk wrote: post #244
DavideNL wrote: post #233

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Same here, love Logitech Media Server... (and also the iPeng app.) For reference: - https://lyrion.org/ - https://github.com/LMS-Community/slimserver

+100 for Lyrion. I have been running it for over 20 years from back in the slimserver days. I also was a huge iPeng app fan until I installed the newer "Material Skin" plugin. If you have not used it yet, I highly recommend you check it out. I use the HTML5 interface full time over the iPeng app on my mobile for controlling the house/music selection. Also the "AirPlay Bridge" and "Chromecast bridge" plugins allow me…

> AirPlay Bridge

Oh sounds good, i hadn't seen that one, i'll have to check it out.

PS. I think i prefer a native app (iPeng) over a web-gui though; and also i can then use the iPad/iPhone as a player device.

Re: Blackcandy: Self hosted music streaming server

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Post by itm »

internet_points wrote: post #286
itm wrote: post #109

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https://github.com/epoupon/lms is another (Open)Subsonic compatible server that supports directory browsing commands. But actually few clients use them.

I've been using https://github.com/sentriz/gonic – how does lms compare to other (open)subsonic servers?

Well you can have some comparison here: https://github.com/basings/selfhosted-music-overview

From what I know lms has more artist relationships (composers, conductors, etc.), but it lacks last.fm integration and jukebox mode.

Re: Blackcandy: Self hosted music streaming server

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Post by willjp »

doublepg23 wrote: post #256
tibu wrote: post #236

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My favorite podcast in this topic is from Jupiter Broadcasting : https://www.jupiterbroadcasting.com/show/self-hosted/

+1 for all the Jupiter Broadcasting shows. I have my career in IT because I found the network in elementary.

Same! But in my 20s and I switched careers.
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