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

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Post by sumtechguy »

nvgeele wrote: post #297
alt227 wrote: post #262

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Emby, a (somewhat) open source C# project, is not a fork of Plex Media Server, a closed source C/C++ project. Emby was forked as Jellyfin however, as a reaction to Emby becoming more and more of a closed source project.

Plex was forked from XBMC which is renamed to KODI an open source project. Think the fork was around version 8 or 9. KODI is up to 20. Downside to KODI is it does not have streaming built in like Plex. But has built in emulation again like earlier version of XBMC.

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Post by l72 »

wanderingmind wrote: post #108
christoph wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Jellyfin is excellent. Swapped to it from Plex about a year ago. Haven't looked back once. I run the server on an old M1 Mac Mini, it's the first time I've felt I have my own personal Netflix. I can stream 40gb 4k HDR Atmos rips to old stereo 1080p plasmas with ancient Firesticks (on wifi) in bedrooms in my house with almost zero delay, even when fast forwarding, and getting near realtime frame previews as you skip.…

have you been able to work out how to stream when you are not in LAN, like with tailscale or other overlay network?

I have a similar setup, with an internal Jellyfin server on my lan. Every phone in my household has Wireguard that automatically connects if you are not on my wifi (which means pi.hole, nextcloud, access to cameras, and other services are also available).

It works quite well. Each family member has their own 'Library', since we all have very different taste in music, plus an 'All Library' that includes everything. We can also stream movies and tv shows I own and have ripped.

The clients are OK. We are mostly using Finamp for music playback.

I like knowing my music is always available to me, can't be removed, and is always the same version (I don't necessarily want a new remastered version)

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Post by l72 »

I have carefully curated my music collection for a few decades now. I am very specific in how I listen to music. I listen to full albums and want them to be gapless. I get really frustrated at the smallest glitch, hiccup, or buffer.

All my music is on my NAS and backed up. I use jellyfin + finamp (+ wireguard when not at home) to stream to my phone.

I have a dedicated mp3 player (fiio) that I also load part of my collection on for true offline and higher fidelity listening.

I can stream through jellyfin to my stereo.

I also have built a raspberry pi with an RFID reader. I have printed album covers onto rfid cards and have stacks of them you can flip through. If you place them them on my stereo, that album starts playing (it uses mpd to stream from my NAS). This was a fun project to turn my digital collection back into something physical and is a lot of fun when friends come over.

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Post by UncleEntity »

navjack27 wrote: post #328

What's so hard about copying the music that you know you're going to be wanting to listen to to whatever device that you're going to have with you and then just listening to it? Why does it have to be streamed? If you have everything on an NAS then just use Windows file share and go to that folder and drag it to your foobar 2000 on your computer. If you're out and about and you want access to all of this then set up…

> If you're out and about and you want access to all of this then set up a VPN server on your router that also has encryption so and then set up VPN client on your phone or whatever and then connect in to your home network when you're out and about and then you can access your home storage...

So, streaming then?

I’d love to put music on my phone but apple doesn’t seem to want me to be able to — though, honestly, I haven’t checked out the Linux->iPhone thing in a while.

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Post by UncleEntity »

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 tried that but when I popped open the little door and installed the memory card I couldn’t make phone calls and surf the internet for some odd reason. Maybe the hackers got in or something, I did find the card lying on the ground when I went to the social security office.

Also have been having a hard time figuring out where to plug in the headphones, like, a really hard time.

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Post by ibroadcast »

int_19h wrote: post #205
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…

How are you able to keep the core service free, given the storage requirements? Also, I couldn't find a list of plans on your website - it's just a bunch of "sign up" links, but I would prefer to see what exactly you're offering before I sign up for anything (even if it's free).

Our premium subscriptions offset that storage cost. You can read more about what you get here:

https://www.ibroadcast.com/premium

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Post by l72 »

jrm4 wrote: post #99

Generally, I hate the experience of streaming from a service. Occasionally to discover, but youtube's good enough for that. For me, the greatest unsung innovation was the car USB player. That took it from the 10 CD's or so to basically whatever I want, however I want. As for streaming my music, I was an MPD user for years, but the client/server experience was often fiddly. Once I discovered mstream (one very good web…

But some of the car USB players are so terrible. My 2012 Buick doesn't allow navigating by artist then by album. It's either top level artist or top level album. It also ignores the track numbers and plays songs in alphabetical order! It is completely useless.

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Post by jrm4 »

ThrowawayTestr wrote: post #162
jrm4 wrote: post #127

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What in the world makes you think it can't? I can think of a TON of ways this could happen at MANY DIFFERENT LEVELS. Is it open/transparent? Okay, then they could just be lying. How does it weigh things? There's no such thing as "objective" here. Okay, from the outside, what's stopping me from "ddosing" fake streams from vps' or similar? It strikes me as utterly naive to presume "fairness" here.

It serves me songs it thinks I like and it's usually correct. Why the conspiracy theories?

"Serving you things you, an individual, like" and so-called "conspiracy theories" are in no way incompatible.

I'm saying this as someone who's seen a relatively long 'history' of what is popular in hip-hop as an example, and I think there are observable trends that go beyond mere "oh, the kids always like something different from the adults."

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Post by jrm4 »

l72 wrote: post #377
jrm4 wrote: post #99

Generally, I hate the experience of streaming from a service. Occasionally to discover, but youtube's good enough for that. For me, the greatest unsung innovation was the car USB player. That took it from the 10 CD's or so to basically whatever I want, however I want. As for streaming my music, I was an MPD user for years, but the client/server experience was often fiddly. Once I discovered mstream (one very good web…

But some of the car USB players are so terrible. My 2012 Buick doesn't allow navigating by artist then by album. It's either top level artist or top level album. It also ignores the track numbers and plays songs in alphabetical order! It is completely useless.

A lot of truth to that; sometimes it takes a little work to figure how to "game" them by knowing how to your particular one handles tags. Mine (Toyota Entune) generally handles albums correctly, but if I want a custom list of songs that doesn't clutter things, I'll just retag them on the USB with an id3 editor, e.g. give them all the same "artist" and "album."

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Post by wilsonfiifi »

Synology Audio Station [0] should be a good replacement for Apple Music and Other streaming apps. Their iOS and Android DS Audio apps are quite good. You can even access your Synology NAS remotely so that should tick quite a few boxes.

[0] https://www.synology.com/en-global/dsm/feature/audio_station

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