Replacing Music Streaming Services with a Self-hosted Stack
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Replacing TV and movie streaming services is pretty trivial, and typically one of the first projects for any new self-hoster, but music streaming services are a whole different beast. There's a growing need to replace the likes of Spotify, but there's no one-size-fits-all solution, and maintaining an on-disk music library

Full disclosure, I’m pretty new to selfhosting myself, and I haven’t written a guide like this before, but hopefully this scatterbrained writeup is enough for someone out there lmao

This is just what works for me and how I set it up. Always open to ideas for improvement as well.

  • MattTheProgrammer@lemmy.worldEnglish
    191·
    2 days ago

    My hangup with self-hosting is due to the fact that I have a family for whom managing their entire library would be a full-time job. It’s unfortunately worth the $15/month for me to not have to constantly take requests for new music, add that to the server, troubleshoot when things don’t work, etc.

    • RaoulDook@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 day ago

      You don’t have to host your whole family’s library though. You can start with whatever you want and be on the road to improving your setup.

    • GreenShimada@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      2 days ago

      This is how I feel with just my spouse. Spotify absorbs so much ADD energy and immediate new music whiplash that I can’t help but be OK with it.

      The alternative is to be up at 4:00am on Oct 13 ripping T-Swizzle MP3s from YT.

      • Cenzorrll@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        1 day ago

        I had my partner put in the addresses of my *arr stack into their phone and showed them how to add things they wanted. They never close any tabs so all I need to say is what weird-ass unrelated name handles whatever media they want and I’m done.