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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 jzb »

tastysandwich wrote: post #82

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! Most of the time, you only need to listen to music on your phone or your computer, right? My main collection (mostly FLAC) is on a NAS with RAID. But then I've got some scripts that maintain a copy of that…

Nope. I have about 1TB of music, FLAC mostly, on a NAS with Plex serving it up.

I started seriously curating my digital collection whenever the Creative Nomad media player came out. Haven’t ditched physical media, though - I like to have a physical copy in addition to digital.

I only take a subset of the collection with me in the car, but I don’t spend much time driving anyway.

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Post by DiskoHexyl »

About 8 bucks a month gives you a single-code Hetzner vps + 1TB of their storage box.

Install Navidrome (subsonic-compatible music streaming server), nginx for https, mount a storage box as a network drive to both VPS and your PC, and you're all set.

Just drag and drop music straight from your laptop to the network drive, and you can listen to it with both web ui or any number of subsonic clients (Symphonium is probably the best for Android).

The only thing that's missing is discovery and recommendation. Navidrome supports scrobbling to last.fm and listenbrainz, but so far I wasn't successfull with getting good recommendations from both of these.

Does anyone have ideas on how to implement this, save for exporting my own data and developing own recommendation system?

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Post by dghughes »

tastysandwich wrote: post #82

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! Most of the time, you only need to listen to music on your phone or your computer, right? My main collection (mostly FLAC) is on a NAS with RAID. But then I've got some scripts that maintain a copy of that…

>I threw out my CDs a long time ago

I have a pile of CDs and my plan was to do that. Now I wonder if some are any good or if the metal coating has degraded. Some are nearly 40 years old!

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Post by danwee »

thewebcount wrote: post #196

OK, serious question - why stream the music? Why not just sync between your computer and phone once a day or week or however often you obtain new music? Then if you don’t have a network connection, you can still listen to all of your music. Is the issue storage space? I did this with an iPod for years before the iPhone came out and it worked really well.

I have a small mp3 (sandisk). About 16GB, around 4000 songs. I carry it with all the time (when travelling, when doing sports, when running, etc). The best thing is that it's small, so I can just hang it anywhere on my clothes and call it a day. I still download mp3s from here and there like in the old days (and have backups as well).

Why not using my smartphone? I don't carry it when doing sports, for instance (it's so uncomfortable).

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Post by jzb »

alt227 wrote: post #269
siquick wrote: post #121

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

If you like an artist/band, buy their music as directly from the artist as you can.

A lot of artists lose money touring. It’s difficult as hell for the majority of working musicians to make a living. If you appreciate them, buy their media, back a Patreon if they’ve got one, etc. Sure, see them live and buy some merch if you can, but that’s not a substitute for also buying their music.

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Post by malborodog »

grose wrote: post #277
maccard wrote: post #274

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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).

(1) could you hash everyone's mp3 files so that if person a had the same songs as person b, you only need to store them once? (2) people obviously storing copyright stuff in there -- do you have legal issues?

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Post by senorqa »

Navidrome: https://www.navidrome.org/ + Ultrasonic: https://gitlab.com/ultrasonic/ultrasonic + Sonixd https://github.com/jeffvli/sonixd + DynDNS + Let's Encrypt Combo does work nicely for me Or MPD in satellite mode https://www.musicpd.org/ + MPDroid https://github.com/abarisain/dmix/wiki also does great job at streaming music

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Post by alelos »

Thrymr wrote: post #141

Another solution that is surprisingly powerful is Logitech Media Server [0], which despite its name is open source and cross-platform. The server can run on any unix-ish machine, and clients can be any number of Raspberry Pis or ESP32s, or custom boxes, or any computer. Multiroom syncing is great. Works for local library and streaming. There is even a modern web interface available [1]. I looked into many of the othe…

I’m surprised not a lot of people suggest LMS now days. I’ve been using it for years and I highly recommend it for streaming your library, locally or remotely. Poor man’s sonos with multidevice sync as well!

It has an active community and a variety of very useful plugins. Heck, I use it as a Spotify frontend as well.

Just make sure to use the material UI plug-in linked above, a lot of people get bumped out with the built in ui upon first install.

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Post by westcort »

You can adapt this to your needs by hosting a version on your own site, or locally: https://www.locserendipity.com/LP.html

Just replace the 20,000 or so links to archive.org music with local links to your songs and you will have a streaming service with only your music and unlimited skips!

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Post by XCSme »

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…

Nice service!

I am wondering about the legal part. Because the users store licensed files on your server, then you "distribute" it back to them, could it be any licensing problem?

I assume it could also be solved by encrypting the file, so you only store encrypted files on your server, and only the user/owner of that song can decode it.

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