Okay, so, where do you get the music from?
Self hosting my media library with Jellyfin and Wireguard on Hetzner
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#82Spotify is the only streaming service I still pay for, and I will continue to pay for, because: 1. The catalog is comprehensive. I listen to far more music than I could afford to own. 2. There are no advertisements in the paid service. 3. Their music discovery algorithm is excellent. I also appreciate the yearly statistics, and how they continue to add value for me. Podcasts and eBooks being added to the platform was…
Tidal has smaller library but higher quality (assuming your speakers allow you to tell the difference).
Spotify lossless support was added last year [1].
[1] https://newsroom.spotify.com/2025-09-10/lossless-listening-a...
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#83Earlier quoted context omitted.
I do enjoy the Spotify Wrapped stuff, but after moving partially to selfhosting Navidrome for a growing collection of rips and DRM-free purchases, I've been scrobbling everything (including Spotify) to Last.fm, which has a similar end-of-year round-up. It's pretty good, got mine a couple of days ago.
> for a growing collection of rips and DRM-free purchases I did the math once for my Spotify liked songs list [1] and it came to $52k for the last 15 years, or $288/month, if I were to self host, without piracy. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45133622
Yeah, mine is also a little bit ridiculous. I think Spotify encourages a certain overconsumption of music; for me, the things on my liked list are not necessarily things that I value equally.
I buy things that I either already know or have discovered on Spotify and that I enjoy enough that I want to own, so I amass a collection of favourites over time. I would never buy everything I've ever liked on Spotify, but that is also because my personal goal is not to become entirely independent of Spotify. The goal is to be a bit more intentional, to have a bit more autonomy, and to avoid good things vanishing into the inky blackness of distribution rights being withdrawn.
Re: Self hosting my media library with Jellyfin and Wireguard on Hetzner
#84This really is a completely nonsensical article. The author is angry that his Spotify subscription becomes slightly more expensive, now running at EUR 12 per month instead of 11. So his solution is to instead rent a EUR 6.50 per month Hetzner server plus a storage space that starts at EUR 3.20 per month (next bigger tier is 10.90). Which means he is now paying at least EUR 9.70 per month for infrastructure, and he ha…
Hey, that's not my point!:) My point is:
- Subscription services getting worse
- Open source / self hosted solutions becoming better
Self hosting is also a learning experience / hobby.
And I'm still subscribed to other streaming services! However I get more and more annoyed of getting worse overall products for higher prices.
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#85Earlier quoted context omitted.
Tidal has smaller library but higher quality (assuming your speakers allow you to tell the difference).
Spotify lossless support was added last year [1]. [1] https://newsroom.spotify.com/2025-09-10/lossless-listening-a...
Spotify only streams 16-bit lossless as far as I have seen (though they claim 24 bit in this post). Might require artists to reupload the audio?
Tidal has much more 24 bit options when I did an A/B.
The dynamic range difference is very material on quality sound setups.
As a side note Bluetooth (at least for Airpods) only does 16-bit!
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#86There are lots of reasons to dislike Spotify but a frustration of mine with the "I ditched Spotify" discourse is that it hides the ball. As this article quietly acknowledges at the end: ditching streaming services either means spending a lot more money or listening to a lot less music. To be clear I think either option is fine, but those seem like the important aspects of the change. If you are going to spend 10x mor…
There is another way. Spend some money on artists, directly (digital downloads, merchandise, concerts, etc.). Pirate all music. If you still spend as much on music as before (for the sake of argument), more of that amount now goes to the people who actually make music. It's a big middle finger to Spotify and the likes. Of course, the obvious issue is that your money now isn't distributed fairly according to some view…
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#87You know you can get Spotify for way cheaper by buying card codes and activating your service from that? Just buy a new card before your subscription expires and it adds the time onto your plan when you put in the card activation code.
Even from official retail channels like Best Buy and Amazon a 1 year Spotify activation code in the US is $99, so 8.25/mo. But you can get cards from gray markets like G2A and it's only like $26 a year.
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#88I see that they suggest Jellyfin. I wonder if there is an end-to-end encrypted media server that can be self-hosted? E.g. if I was to host my photos on a VPS, I would use Ente instead of Immich because Ente is E2EE. Same for my media.
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#89Earlier quoted context omitted.
The only evidence I can find is with Spotify doing this.
Amazon Originals, Netflix Originals. Disney Originals. Paramount Originals. I'm just wondering what is different between series and music, that for music its very bad morally to create your own and to put your own in the front row. While for other streaming its accepted.
One big difference is that these shows and movies are not "ghost," they credit their crew and talent like any other production, and those folks negotiate their pay rates similar to other productions. If you are a grip on a Netflix original movie, you will get listed in the credits like any other movie.
The other big difference is that TV and movie productions have always been "assemble when needed." Production companies are typically very thin business shells who hire in 99% of what they need per show. As opposed to a band or artist like Taylor Swift or The Rolling Stones, where the core persistent business unit is the talent itself.
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#90Regardless of pricing you can't substitute one with the other... Spotify is a streaming service with a massive library. Self hosting means you must BYO media... and, news flash, populating a library with relevant content that rivals Spotify or would satisfy your average user will almost certainly require illegally acquiring said content.
I like that I must bring my own media. It means everything on my server was intentionally put there by me. No extra shit.