What about mounting an SMB drive?
Yea, a networked Linux box serving an NFS mount has worked perfectly for me for a good 20 years. Never felt the need for anything more complicated. Works for movies, too.
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
#72I 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…
That's too much effort, don't you think.Maybe not for you but for general tech folks.
Re: I don't want streaming music, I just want to stream my music
#73I 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…
As someone currently running a Navidrome instance with 40k songs...yeah, I wouldn't wish that on anyone(horrible performance), but it is an option I suppose.
As someone also hosting thousands of songs who has been using Navidrome for months I can't say I experienced any performance issues.
The codebase is fairly small so it should be fairly straight forward to investigate and narrow down the performance issues you're experiencing.
Re: I don't want streaming music, I just want to stream my music
#74I 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…
Another Navidrome user here. I used Subsonic for a decade before the developer eventually abandoned it, and Navidrome is a great replacement (and doesn't make me install Java like Subsonic).
I host mine on a Digital Ocean VPS with 1 core and 1GB of RAM, syncing my music from my home PC to DO Spaces storage with rclone. Works perfectly
Re: I don't want streaming music, I just want to stream my music
#75In the article he mentions using Meta for batch editing mp3 tags. Is anyone aware of similar applications for PC? Suggestions appreciated
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Re: I don't want streaming music, I just want to stream my music
#76Earlier quoted context omitted.
As someone currently running a Navidrome instance with 40k songs...yeah, I wouldn't wish that on anyone(horrible performance), but it is an option I suppose.
where do you notice performance suffering? hosting a 30k+ track navidrome library on a modest server and haven't noticed any slowdowns
In two places. The web client takes _minutes_ to load the artist page. It's slow enough that I get the Firefox warning stating that the page is slowing down Firefox. The web client (seemingly) doesn't load the song/tracklist in chunks and attempts to load every song at once(at least on the artist page).
The second issue isn't specifically a "Navidrome" problem, but every iOS and Mac desktop client I've used(and I've tried _every_ one that Navidrome lists on their site) attempts to load every song on load and basically becomes unusable.
I'm about two notches away from writing my own music streaming server. Navidrone is barely functional for me...and falls under software I hate, but there are no better options.
Re: I don't want streaming music, I just want to stream my music
#77I used to be very much into music and can appreciate your efforts.
You seem to have a novel solution. Maybe you can refine it and turn it into some sort of online service or consulting business.
Re: I don't want streaming music, I just want to stream my music
#78I 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…
That's too much effort, don't you think.Maybe not for you but for general tech folks.
OP has a somewhat complicated setup. Here's an easier one that I use:
* Pay $15/month for a VPS (whatbox in my case).
* whatbox has a notion of first class apps, including Plex. Click a button in their GUI to install it.
* drag and drop your music using whatbox's GUI file browser
That's it.
Re: I don't want streaming music, I just want to stream my music
#79I 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…
That's too much effort, don't you think.Maybe not for you but for general tech folks.
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Re: I don't want streaming music, I just want to stream my music
#80Earlier 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.…
How old can an m1 mac mini actually be