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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
#392Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
what do you mean by "KODI ... does not have streaming"? I have rpi with KODI on my son's TV and it streams everything over CIFS from my NAS - the NAS doesn't transcode or otherwise do anything but host the cifs share.
Does Kodi serve up files? e.g. Can I install Kodi on my PC with all my media, then watch that stuff on my phone when I'm away from the house, or grant a friend access to my library?
That's what Plex does: it has server apps and client apps.
Re: I don't want streaming music, I just want to stream my music
#393Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've found out the best places to find new music are the ones on the illegal side of things. There are still torrent sites with amazing communities, recommendation systems and all the possible music available in all qualities. Too bad it's not really OK to mention them by name, but if you dig a bit, you can find them.
when w.cd died I lost a part of my life :'(
The loss of the collages and all the metadata was almost as terrible as the loss of the music itself.
Re: I don't want streaming music, I just want to stream my music
#394I paid for plex, I stream my own music from anywhere via the callback into my home net. I can chromecast, play in-car, whatever. If I have IP "it just works" Its backed on an RPI-4 NAS I built, running the plex arm linux code. I have another RPI-3 in the living room as a headless music source to an amp. In the past I've used HDMI to VGA+audio splitters to scatter output to devices. This is my music, on my disks, unde…
> I paid for plex
I just spent 5min browsing their website and I still have no idea how much it costs, or whether they offer cloud storage or I need to install a media server application on my NAS at home. And how come they can offer "free movies"? Could anyone explain what their business model looks like? The website looks rather sketchy…
Re: I don't want streaming music, I just want to stream my music
#395Owntone + wireguard + mpd client eg rhythmbox for on the go.
Eh wrote it too quick for my brane.
Daap client. Eg rhythmbox or iTunes, the creatively named "DAAP" from fdroid, looks like there's a few for ios.
Owntone is great to drive your airplay speakers in your house (shairport-sync or whatever) daap client let's you stream that one, organised, curated, source of truth collection on the local network - which wireguard provides to you even when you're far, far away. Last.fm in you're into that (I'm not).
Better than any subscription service because it's yours.
Re: I don't want streaming music, I just want to stream my music
#396Earlier quoted context omitted.
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."
Every generation hates the music of the next generation. You couldn't be more of a cliche.
Re: I don't want streaming music, I just want to stream my music
#397Earlier quoted context omitted.
It’s no more dead than vinyl was 15 years ago. Not everyone makes CDs these days but plenty do.
15 years ago vinyl was already trending sharply up. CDs are way down and continuing to go down. Vinyl has outsold CD's in dollar terms for years now, and for the last several has sold more in raw units as well.
https://www.statista.com/chart/7699/lp-sales-in-the-united-s...
I was off by a year or two. Point still stands.
https://www.statista.com/chart/12950/cd-sales-in-the-us/
CD sales have declined, yes, but the perception is a bit skewed because CD sales dwarfed vinyl even in its best years.
Re: I don't want streaming music, I just want to stream my music
#398OK, 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.
This is easy to answer: my music collections add up to about 400 GB now. Phones are pretty stingy with storage, it just won't fit. My solution is to have a pretty serious 20 GB/month data bundle, run Wireguard and some additional hackery so that the BubbleUPNP app on my phone can use multicast to discover some MiniDLNA/ReadyMedia containers running in my switchboard cabinet, and stream my collections that way.
Use BubbleUPnP server instead, and dump it behind nginx or other reverse proxy for https support (it also has an option built-in for https, I think). No need for wireguard, unless you're already using it for other things. If necessary, it can also do transcoding for you.
A 512gb microsd might also cost you less than a few months of cell service at $50, and if that's not enough 1-1.5tb is also available these days (micron's 1.5tb i400 costs a whopping $550+; 1tb is more reasonable at ~$100 from SanDisk) if you need more, and 2tb has been announced by Kioxia.
Re: I don't want streaming music, I just want to stream my music
#399Oh 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 do roughly the same thing, but I use Syncthing. I always had trouble keeping my phone connected reliably enough to run a long running script, and Syncthing works well. I have a 1TB sdcard in my phone that has a mirror of my 600GB+ library. I use Foobar2000 on my phone because it's easy to just pin my Music folder from the filesystem and navigate through the folders. Just about every other music player out there see…
I do the same thing, but I am facing some read only problem. The changes have stopped getting synced. I need to investigate more. Do you face any syncing problem?
Re: I don't want streaming music, I just want to stream my music
#400Earlier quoted context omitted.
TIL Strawberry (Clementine fork). I found the relevant page that lists differences on the Wiki: https://wiki.strawberrymusicplayer.org/wiki/Differences_from... I’ve been happy with Clementine, but I wish it didn’t have that many features - going to give strawberry a spin.
A shameless plug, but you may also like Quod Libet[1]. Although not for everyone, it has very advanced searching and the more unusual integrations and features all implemented as plugins. [1] https://quodlibet.readthedocs.io
This doesn't support the Subsonic API right? I looked at the plugins, but couldn't figure it out.