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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
#92I 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…
Jellyfin is an emby fork, not Plex.
I used Jellyfin for the first time recently. It was very smooth and worked flawlessly for my use case (watching episodes of a TV show on my phone after downloading them on my computer).
I never used Plex because it creeped me out. Maybe I misunderstood something but it seemed like it was needlessly phoning home.
Re: I don't want streaming music, I just want to stream my music
#93Yes. I am about to embark upon Phase I of the Great Ripping. I'm not sure how it will go. (If anyone knows how to get an disc autoloader like the Nimbie NB21 or its ilk to play nice with Exact Audio Copy, let me know)
But I am faced with an even more interesting challenge: trying to do this for my mom and one of my ... technically-challenged friends. What I want for them is something like a Roku app that they can pick out some section of music that I've partitioned off or ripped for them and just let it go. My mom would like a Motown station and some Noisy Nineties as well; my friend would dig on the alternative eighties and probably a custom "ethereal" station with a hint of darkwave. Sure, I can rip 'em. Got a Python script that will transcode to high-end MP3s and renormalize the audio. But the part where I attach some directory and its files, or a playlist, or whatever, to something easy regular people can just navigate to, click click click, this seems to be kind of an interesting challenge.
And for me, I don't want to listen to, as Pictures for Sad Children would be paraphrased "Whatever is on Spotify ... played at a reasonable volume." I have some very rare, very weird stuff I would like to listen to at times. Rather than worry about licensing games, well, I'd like to listen to what I have. It isn't trivial, by any means.
Re: I don't want streaming music, I just want to stream my music
#94Earlier quoted context omitted.
Jellyfin is an emby fork, not Plex.
I used Jellyfin for the first time recently. It was very smooth and worked flawlessly for my use case (watching episodes of a TV show on my phone after downloading them on my computer). I never used Plex because it creeped me out. Maybe I misunderstood something but it seemed like it was needlessly phoning home.
I'm really trying to like Jellyfin, but unfortunately the Roku app is just absolutely terrible by comparison. The thing that grinds my gears the most is I can't see how much time is left in what I'm watching without pausing.
Re: I don't want streaming music, I just want to stream my music
#95Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
$15/mo is only marginally better than a family streaming plan on price, but loses out on music availability.
Getting that down to $5-10 would be worth it for most who aren't into the social aspect of music services.
Re: I don't want streaming music, I just want to stream my music
#96I know the OP said iTunes Match wasn't working for him because iTunes would change his meta data, but I use it for streaming my own and purchased content (works great) and also have changed the meta data on a bunch of albums. It works really well 99% of the time.
Yeah, he is right that for some albums, iTunes does mess up my meta data, but at least for me, it's the exception instead of the rule.
Would prefer to use a different solution than that from a huge corporate behemoth, but it works so well, isn't really worth it for me to switch.
Re: I don't want streaming music, I just want to stream my music
#97Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Wow $15 a month? What's in that box, you're not just using it for some music streaming right? I've got my reverse proxy running on a 3.45€ instance from hetzner and I can't imagine you need much more for some music streaming right?
I use it for many other use cases...
Re: I don't want streaming music, I just want to stream my music
#98Roon: 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 differen…
Roon seems very expensive for a service where I provide the actual disk space for the music.
Re: I don't want streaming music, I just want to stream my music
#99Generally, I hate the experience of streaming from a service. Occasionally to discover, but youtube's good enough for that.
For me, the greatest unsung innovation was the car USB player. That took it from the 10 CD's or so to basically whatever I want, however I want.
As for streaming my music, I was an MPD user for years, but the client/server experience was often fiddly. Once I discovered mstream (one very good web interface, no client/server separation, honors folders) I never had to look back.
Re: I don't want streaming music, I just want to stream my music
#100Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
It’s no more dead than vinyl was 15 years ago. Not everyone makes CDs these days but plenty do.