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how are my fellow peeps hosting your music collection these days? (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) by SidewaysHighways@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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right now I'm trying a dedicated Jellyfin instance for audio only (bought the lifetime emby subscription before i learned about jellyfin, so video is elsewhere) but having trouble finding a good client that could run on the guts of an old autonomic MMS2A. That device has an analog and digital output, which with the normal OS treated as two separate sources. is that something anyone else has tinkered with? the original plan was to just run a kodi instance with the jellyfin addon, but im not sure if this has the horsepower to run kodi, and certainly not two at once! (4gb of ram max for this beast.

i need it to be remotely controllable, it'd be cool to have easy playlist management/backup that other devices could see, and potentially an android client if possible?

I've dabbled with the "____sonic" ecosystem back before i was really good at linux, and struggled a bunch, before giving up without anything real to show for it.

just curious if anyone else has been down this road successfully!

thanks for this community, my scrolling stops INSTANTLY when i see a post from here.

(oh my music server is a truenas SMB share, hosted in a proxmox vm! not opposed to putting a big SSD in this device if local music would make things easier)

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[–] jhdeval@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

I use navidrome for the streaming and lidarr for downloads. I am not totally thrilled with navidrome as I can not play genres. I want to setup an icecast streaming server with individual "channels" for each genre

[–] Cyber@feddit.uk 3 points 4 weeks ago

MythTV for the main storage, stored in folders by my genre.

All metadata updated via Picard.

Syncthing to replicate to a Raspberry Pi (2 or 3, I don't recall which) running Volumio with a DAC board to connect speakers to.

The Pi is in the bedroom, so I only replicate the genres that I want, which cuts down on storage needed on the Pi, and means I don't need MythTv / NAS / etc. powered over night.

[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 3 points 4 weeks ago

I like using rygel currently, just run it by command line and media folders are available over the network. Any device with VLC can see it on the network and play.

[–] irmadlad@lemmy.world 3 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

My problem is that I cannot find a selfhosting solution that has the nuts to spool up 80k+ hi-res, original sourced, flac files that reside on two 10TB drives through my ancient technology. MusicBee is the closest thing I've come across, but that is local, and it struggles. I stay around the compound now days so local is ok, but it would be nice to stream out on the back porch without cranking my stereo to 11 so I can hear. I have bluetooth options but range is an issue.

[–] SidewaysHighways@lemmy.world 3 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

if you can, don't be afraid to pull some wires! i come from a low-voltage background, and am getting ready to run some cabling for distributed audio.

found some old control4 gear that can be controlled directly from Home Assistant, no control4 processor required!

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[–] DrunkAnRoot@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 weeks ago

local storage server as a backup and to download my music to my devices (ik jellyfin is better then this but i already had the storage set up)

[–] EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world 3 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Emby. It is so far, the nicest music client on iOS that I’ve been able to find.

[–] SidewaysHighways@lemmy.world 3 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Howdy Fellow Emby user!

i did like using emby for music and podcasts, but i was always perturbed by having to dig through the emby app to get to music. i tried using a different profile for music only but then got annoyed at having to swap back and forth.

so at the crib, are you airplaying from your phone? what's your audio pipeline look like?

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[–] Merlin@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 4 weeks ago

I got 500 gb drive pcloud with my pia socket 5 proxy/ vpn and i can play music files in their app so i put my flacs there.

[–] blackstrat@lemmy.fwgx.uk 3 points 4 weeks ago

Have always preferred Emby. Have been running it for around 8 years.

[–] MysteriousSophon21@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

MPD (Music Player Daemon) would be perfect for that old Autonomic - super lightweight, runs on practically anythng, and Symfonium is an amazing Android client that supports it natively.

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[–] tuckerm@feddit.online 2 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I use Funkwhale, which I have liked, but my use case is just streaming music through my laptop and listening with headphones. I don't think there is a client available that will run on your Autonomic streamer.

Funkwhale does have a subsonic API, so you could use a subsonic client, but you mentioned that didn't quite work before. (Is that what you mean by __sonic? I haven't actually heard that term.)

Funkwhale is nice, but I think for most people it doesn't (yet) offer any useful features beyond what Navidrome has, and probably even lacks a few things that Navidrome has. Funkwhale's main appeal is that you can follow someone's music library via the fediverse, although there hasn't really been a lot of use for that so far. Version 2 is coming soon, though, and adds a whole bunch of new fediverse features.

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[–] oshu@lemmy.world 2 points 4 weeks ago

I picked up a Denon DNP-730AE network audio player on ebay and I run Tiny-DLNA on my server where the music files and playlists are stored.

Works great and sounds great.

[–] Vase@feddit.org 2 points 4 weeks ago

Gathered all music/Audiobook Files on my Synology NAS, organized in folders. Beside, there is still a Lyrion Music Server (LMS) running on the NAS in a docker. Put the Squeezer Play Client on every possible device (Windows, Linux PC, Android, Tigerbox, Pi zeros) and streaming works well for me at Home.

Access either via Web or App on Android/iOS. I have enabled navigating in LMS via folders because ID3 Tags are poorly maintained in my files. :/

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