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Jellyfin as a Spotify alternative

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Re: Jellyfin as a Spotify alternative

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Post by godelski »

steine65 wrote: post #429
godelski wrote: post #400

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You misunderstand the goal. > to block all ads on your home network? That. That is the problem we're looking at. I already use Firefox on /my computer/. We were talking about a pihole or some /network/ solution. How do I block ads on my friends computer when they get into my network without touching their computer? How do I block ads on my TV? You'd have to do something like deep packet inspection. Devices I fully co…

If you have a tv with WebOS there is an ad-removed youtube app you can load. Doesn't solve your friend's problem but might solve part of the problem.

I don't. Sure, I can root my TV and certainly there's exploits for that. But honestly that example isn't the problem and is much more easily solved by treating my TV as a monitor.

Re: Jellyfin as a Spotify alternative

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Post by godelski »

steine65 wrote: post #430
godelski wrote: post #253

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I've been on this mission but unfortunately also trying to defend my PhD in a month. But I do have a lot more Linux experience. Here's stuff that I think will really help. yt-dlp: a video downloaded. Originally designed for YouTube but supports a lot of sites. I suggest heavily aliasing this with options like sleep intervals, aria2, and make sure you download the user agent switcher. For YouTube you probably need to…

This is great. If you ever wrote about your entire setup I'd love to read it. Got a few new ideas from your post. To anyone reading, the most helpful tool for setting up my homelab is the community helper-scripts (formerly tteck, RIP). Those have saved me soooo much time, and showed me best practices in setup, and the list of scripts give you a good idea of tools that are commonly used.

I have drafts for it but maybe I shouldn't have made this comment under my anonymous account lol.

I'm a firm believer that tools should be made to be usable by both technical and nontechnical people. Usually we do one or the other but it's a false dichotomy. "For the noobs" pushes for sane defaults, reduced complexity, and fixing bugs. It's also an entry point to become a power user, especially as being a power user in one domain doesn't mean you're automatically in another. "For the power users" gives flexibility, helps fix bugs (faster and higher coverage), as well as is critical for feature development (unless you naively believe you can know everything your diverse users need and have an infinite budget), and evangelize your product. The magic of success requires having both but I think we pretend it is one or the other. It needs to work well and be pretty.

Re: Jellyfin as a Spotify alternative

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Post by etra0 »

udev4096 wrote: post #222
etra0 wrote: post #72

I recently bought a mini pc too and gave the self-host shenanigans a roll. It was definitely worth it. Using traefik + tailscale + dns challenge with CloudFlare, I was able to self-host and make my services available only through the vpn without loosing HTTPS on all the subdomains. It's lovely!

This is partly self-hosting. You are relying on clownflare and tailscale for your services to be accessible. Do better

Why does this feel like nagging on projects I do on my free-time for my own?

I'm willing to learn but please try to be less condescending :)

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Post by mrheosuper »

SECProto wrote: post #92
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Don't forget the electricity cost come with home server. A quick math will show that it's not insignificant

> Don't forget the electricity cost come with home server. A quick math will show that it's not insignificant If you run it 24/7 on a dedicated desktop with decent idle (i.e. no high power video card, low power CPU), it likely uses ~ 50W average. That gives an estimate of 0.05kW 24hr 30 = 36kWh, which would be in the range of $12/month at current australian electricity prices. If you have bad idle power usage (or som…

Those HDD will quickly add to total power consumptions

OP was trying to replace streaming services, so he gonna need storage. Assuimg he had 3 hdd for raid 5, that is another 15*3 = 45w

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Post by bigstrat2003 »

tough wrote: post #403
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Please don't post AI replies.

it's a factual thing I learned after following the comment threads and asking the AI about it, it does link to the source article. Why is this bad? I will, im just wondering, would only the link to the source article been better/acceptable here? I dont' get the hate for AI replies if they're on topic and generated by a human tbh, but ill respect it since its not first time seeing this i guess

> Why is this bad?

In short: other posters want to hear from you, not from an AI. AI written posts aren't actually valuable (we can all dump stuff into the AI just fine). If you don't have much to say, it's fine to just share a link to the source you found.

Re: Jellyfin as a Spotify alternative

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Post by bigstrat2003 »

rappatic wrote: post #384
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> The fact is that the vast majority of us don't have the resources to self-host a Jellyfin instance that can provide near-instantaneous access anywhere in the world to every song ever made at 320kbps. The fact also is that the vast majority of us don't have a requirement to be able to access our media from anywhere in the world. Most people aren't traveling the world on a regular basis, they stay in one area except…

> the vast majority of us don't have a requirement to be able to access our media from anywhere in the world I don't travel internationally often at all. But when I do, access to my music becomes all the more important.

That's definitely your prerogative, but I think that is also kind of esoteric. When I'm on vacation I'm too busy enjoying my vacation to have time to listen to my music!

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Post by cortesoft »

sandreas wrote: post #382
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Thanks for mentioning audiobookshelf. I'd totally given up on using jellyfin for audiobooks. It just absolutely butchers any book split into multiple files, which is basically all of them. I'll give audiobookshelf a look!

You're welcome. The Android app is pretty good, but for iOS it remains unreleased, so you have to deploy yourself. Prologue seems to be the best iOS App. There are other unofficial Clients (e.g. in flutter), but I tend to use audiobookshelf as streaming player paired with vlc to play downloaded offline files (the app is not so great here)

There is a paid audiobook shelf client on iOS… I think it is like a one time $5 or something. Totally worth it to me, it has worked great and I don’t have to do the bullshit test app stuff (which stopped working for audiobookshelf anyway because too many people were using the test app)

Re: Jellyfin as a Spotify alternative

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Post by cortesoft »

atoav wrote: post #262
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> run both Navidrome and Jellyfin in docker containers > use NordVPN Meshnet to securely connect to them outside of the home > host an entire FLAC library and then transcode to Opus on the fly. i really have no idea what any of these words mean. Spotify's future is secure.

A docker container is a way to easily install software on a server without having to install dependencies yourself. A VPN (Virtual Private Network) is a way of securely connecting to your home network without exposing it to the world. FLAC and Opus are audio formats. FLAC uses lossless compression and offers the best uncompressed quality while not being as huge as a broadcast wave (.wav) file. Opus is similar to an m…

> That probably makes it appear like I have to spend all my free time on this, but it takes surprisingly little of my time to maintain this, with a lot of it running on a single Raspberry Pi.

Sure, it is really easy to maintain… if you are already skilled with system administration and how all of these things work.

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Post by psyfer »

There's a lesser known player app called Voicelane where you could drop youtube URLs into a playlist where you are allowed to play on loop. I would browse music and songs on YT and listen to them on one of my Voicelane playlists. It's pretty neat

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Post by armsaw »

anthonypz wrote: post #259
sandreas wrote: post #225

I personally use Jellyfin ONLY for Video stuff. AudioBookShelf[1] is for audiobooks and podcasts. For music I use navidrome [2] The smart playlist feature[5] is awesome. Having 3 services instead of one seems overkill, but specialized apps instead of one generic one feels different. One interesting aspect of navidrome is, that it has implemented the Subsonic API, which MANY Apps make use of. My personal favorite is S…

Neat! Can you stream navidrome to a smart TV? I have speakers connected to them and I usually stream to it using airplay on iOS.

If you use an AppleTV, there’s also a pretty decent navidrome client called LMP.
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