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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 Dalewyn »

rolenthedeep wrote: post #32
Gualdrapo wrote: post #11

I guess storing my music in my PC hard drive and playing from it makes me look like a caveman.

It's certainly an option, but it lacks the flexibility most people have come to expect. Storing your media locally is fine, but you only have it when you're physically at your machine. To go portable you have to manage syncing files to an external device. Now you've got two libraries to manage. Yes, we lived with this kind of thing since digital music existed, but it was a pain then and it's a pain now. Keeping one c…

>To go portable you have to manage syncing files to an external device. Now you've got two libraries to manage.

Just copying whatever music I want to listen to on the go and playing it back locally is far simpler and easier than dealing with Plex/Jellyfin, hosting a server, managing a VPN, and all the other sysadmin nonsense.

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

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Post by VonGuard »

rolenthedeep wrote: post #25

I use Jellyfin, it's about the same thing as Plex, but free. I host it on my homelab along with a half dozen other services, and I can stream any of my media from anywhere. There's even pretty nice third-party clients. I use finamp on android, it's specifically a music player frontend for jellyfin, and has options to download your files and play offline. So far, the biggest problem is simply learning how to find musi…

Would you believe that SoulSeek is still a thing? It is. P2P 4evah.

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

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Post by berkle4455 »

huimang wrote: post #31

One of my hobbies is buying used CDs on discogs or from my local record store and ripping them with ExactAudioCopy. I use Picard (gui) and metaflac (CLI) to manually edit the tags. For each album's comment I try to put the artists involved and the album liner notes, if any. For a web player, Navidrome is excellent. I use the play:Sub iOS app to access it on my phone and stream to my apple tv, which is connected to my…

One of my hobbies in a past life was downloading high-quality rips from what.cd

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

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Post by senectus1 »

ggm wrote: post #10

I 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…

yup, the plex streaming music solution works perfectly for my family as well. I wish plexamp was a little better though. the interface is a bit unintuitive/inconsistent and it doesn't behave well with android auto.

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

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Post by nntwozz »

nouryqt wrote: post #6

I use navidrome[0], its a music streaming server you can selfhost and then use a player that supports the subsonic api for playback. I use the strawberry[1] music player on my desktop and substreamer[2] on android. Navidrome can also scrobble your music to last.fm if you tell it to. The actual music files are mounted with rclone and --vfs-cache-mode full to a directory. [0] https://www.navidrome.org/ [1] https://gith…

And if you don't want to scrobble to last.fm (or listenbrainz) you can self-host Maloja https://github.com/krateng/maloja

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

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Post by [deleted] »

christoph wrote: post #48
endigma wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Jellyfin is an emby fork, not Plex.

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.…

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

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Post by TylerE »

rolenthedeep wrote: post #32
Gualdrapo wrote: post #11

I guess storing my music in my PC hard drive and playing from it makes me look like a caveman.

It's certainly an option, but it lacks the flexibility most people have come to expect. Storing your media locally is fine, but you only have it when you're physically at your machine. To go portable you have to manage syncing files to an external device. Now you've got two libraries to manage. Yes, we lived with this kind of thing since digital music existed, but it was a pain then and it's a pain now. Keeping one c…

This is even assuming physical media exists to rip in the first place. Plenty of smaller labels these days only do vinyl and streaming. CD is a dead format.

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

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Post by pnw »

Roon: a very promising service, but one geared more towards the audiophile audience and with hardware requirements I'm not interested in investing in at this point.

If you've spent all of the time and effort to put your audio collection on local storage that's also encrypted and mirrored, you are the audiophile audience!

Roon is a great option. I don't really understand OP's objection? Roon supports over 800 different playback devices in addition to software so it's pretty unlikely you don't already have something that supports it.

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