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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 grose »

XCSme wrote: post #320
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.

Thank you! The way I tried to solve this problem is by using signed URLs for the files. So every file URL should only be accessible to a user with the matching credentials. At least, that's the idea :-)

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

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Post by grose »

ant6n wrote: post #304
ace2358 wrote: post #282

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I signed up. This is a thing I would love! A smaller plan would be great or a yearly cost. I pay for subsonic ($12/yr) and would love a remote service for my music host. It’s the main reason I leave my tower on 24/7! Great project!

Like a 25gb-1$ plan. Or 20$ annual.

I like this idea. I'm going to look into adding a small annual plan. BTW, currently you never lose access to your files even if you don't pay so feel free to use the site for free and wait until I get the annual plan in.

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

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Post by jrexilius »

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 seems like a good fit, but I'd echo some other requests on here for yearly plan (hate monthly), and playlists. I personally am fine with the barebones aesthetic but you may want to do a bit more for general marketability.

Good job!

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

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Post by acidburnNSA »

I have a music library on my home server that I use mopidy to play via the iris plugin integrated into my home assistant UI. It plays over Snapcast which streams over the network to multiple devices in the home with independent volume control. I can fire up the Snapcast client in my phone to get it going there as well, which does work over vpn if I'm away, though I generally just fire up the files from my phones SD card for out-of-home listening. I recently started using whipper on Linux to extract audio from craigslist cds.

https://mopidy.com/

https://mopidy.com/ext/iris/

https://github.com/badaix/snapcast

https://github.com/whipper-team/whipper

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

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Post by XCSme »

grose wrote: post #351
XCSme wrote: post #320

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Thank you! The way I tried to solve this problem is by using signed URLs for the files. So every file URL should only be accessible to a user with the matching credentials. At least, that's the idea :-)

What if the user shares that URL with someone? Or the URL is only accessible if you are signed-in?

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

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Post by fatnoah »

Way back in the early 2000's, I homebrewed a simple server to stream audio from my home PC via Windows Media Services (IIRC). It featured a web app to allow me to create the playlist. It let me listen to my own music at work without having to copy files, even with the limited bandwidth of my home DSL connection.

Nowadays, I use Roon for the same purpose (specifically Roon ARC). It's not cheap, but I was already using Roon for home to easily find and manage music across my own collection and streaming services, and then play it back on many devices in my home. It takes a bit of work to get running there is a cost, so it's definitely a bit of an investment, but it generally does exactly what I want it to do and I spend my time using it rather than fighting it.

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

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Post by grose »

ant6n wrote: post #310
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…

The page does not make it clear how it works. This is how a technically inclined but maybe less so than your current users may see this: Like its a kind of Dropbox? With folders and whatnot? But with a Music player App to play the music on various devices, which will stream the music from that drop box? So it’s like a Spotify, except it takes the music from this drop box like thing instead of their server? For which…

Thanks for the feedback. Agreed it's not presented well. It's kind of like Dropbox. You can upload files from your browser, and you can also listen to your music in your browser. It supports an open protocol called Subsonic. There are Subsonic apps for various OSs. But, we don't have our own native app. I definitely need screenshots / open demo page.

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Post by horsawlarway »

ollien wrote: post #94
TechBro8615 wrote: post #92

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I used Jellyfin for the first time recently. It was very smooth and worked flawlessly for my use case (watching episodes of a TV show on my phone after downloading them on my computer). I never used Plex because it creeped me out. Maybe I misunderstood something but it seemed like it was needlessly phoning home.

I'm really trying to like Jellyfin, but unfortunately the Roku app is just absolutely terrible by comparison. The thing that grinds my gears the most is I can't see how much time is left in what I'm watching without pausing.

Personally - I've stopped using Roku devices.

I feel like they had a boom early in the pandemic and then just completely flamed out. Now I feel like support is terrible across the board - It's not just jellyfin that sucks on Roku, so does Netflix/Hulu, and don't even get me started with channels just entirely disappearing because of developer disagreements and licensing.

That said - Jellyfin really sucks on Roku. The android tv version of the app is miles better.

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Post by non-nil »

There's one thing I cannot stand about the Apple streaming platform: the first one or two seconds of a song seem to be served at a lower bitrate, making any powerful intro hits/notes basically get a low-pass filter applied.

Or, at least this is my understanding of it – that they've prioritized serving audio FAST, rather than waiting an extra second for the higher bitrate to buffer. I find it absolutely infuriating and can't un-notice it. For some reason, it seems to behave the same if the bandwidth/latency is great or poor, or whether files are cached or not.

I don't use other services, but never experience this with any other player (including my own Navidrome setup), even if the files are the exact same.

Surely I can't be the only one who's noticed?

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

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Post by chunk_waffle »

adra wrote: post #144
throw7 wrote: post #65

you can upload to youtube music (100,000 song limit though). the interface sucks (SO much worse than google music which google killed) and is filled with dark patterns. https://support.google.com/youtubemusic/answer/9716522?hl=en

I finally found a good enough replacement for Google Music in koel. It's a tiny server that runs in a docker container and it does anything that I cared about, which admittedly isn't overly complicated.

+1 for Koel
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