I have 49 gb of music and at the moment i just sync it between my devices with syncthing. But i think it will be better if i stream it, as the storage on my phone is limited.
Which streaming server do you recommend?
I saw nextcloud music, but i have the feeling it’s half backed and it will just clog my nextcloud install. Or supysonic? Ampache?
I use Navidrome. Really well made clients for anything, ability to select transcoding method (or lack thereof) based on a client, changing of following songs etc.
Oh, and it runs flawlessly on a single SBC with no hiccup.
I’ve been using Plex and Plexamp for ages. I have about two terabytes of flacs in my NAS, and Plexamp seamlessly encodes it to 128 kbps Opus when listening on a mobile network, or streams the flac as-is if on Wi-Fi. It has a good recommendation engine and a very nice UI. Worth the money, if you ask me.
I use Plexamp
Same
I use navidrome, it’s pretty simple to setup and use and has support for many clients. For mobile I use Ultrasonic and sonixd for desktop
May not be the fanciest, but I use MPD.
When I’m home, it outputs to a pipe that feeds Snapcast for my multi-room audio. If I’m away, I can stream it through MALP on Android or through a web interface (myMPD)
this one too, for in-house hifi managing, is really great. I never used myMPD though, i’m using the basic http streaming feature and keep controlling from malp / vpn eventually.
Couple of questions for @ptz@dubvee.org
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can myMPD manage different users choosing to play different stuff at the same time ?
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did you manage to have artist images on MALP at your control ? That only fanart is often wrong/inaccurate so i keep them off
can myMPD manage different users
It has support for partitioning but I had some issues with myMPD at least not handling them well. Each partition is a virtual player / output
did you manage to have artist images
MALP gets its artwork dynamically from MusicBrainz or some other service. Same for myMPD. I don’t really bother with managing that locally.
It has support for partitioning but I had some issues with myMPD at least not handling them well. Each partition is a virtual player / output
mmm, ok, i’ll give it a try. For personal use i’m fine driving everything with malp. I was thinking about giving a couple of people the ability to remote play what they want.
MALP gets its artwork dynamically from MusicBrainz or some other service. Same for myMPD. I don’t really bother with managing that locally
for album art malp honour the one embedded in id3 tags. As for artist i keep them blank because if there is an error or two groups with the same name, or a not so known local groups, in malp end up being wrong which i hate.
for album art malp honour the one embedded in id3 tags
MALP and myMPD both honor the ID3-embedded art. yes, and I believe those take precedence over pulling from a remote API.
A lot of my music is old CD rips without any embedded images, and the ones that do have them are often incorrect from trying to embed them a long time ago. (e.g. half my music from the late 90s all have Silverchair’s Freak Show album cover as the embedded artwork)
TBH, I don’t really pay attention to the album art that much. I’ve lived without it long enough, so for me, it’s nice when it works and is correct, but I don’t really sweat it if not.
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Navidrome has been a revelation for me, I use it along with the absolutely brilliant app Symfonium. It took me a long time to get here, but it’s a killer combination that does everything I want it to do. It has been so seamless that I had to look up what it was called because I haven’t had to tinker with it for months. Tailscale works well as a VPN solution too if you need one, but you might be fine with reverse proxies etc. (popping my lemmy cherry with this comment btw)
I used Jellyfin with Finamp on my phone.
Jellyfin a million times over. It manages all your music and has get integrations and apps.
I’ve used ampache in the past, but now jellyfin since I’m using it for other media as well
I also have a jellyfin server but last time i tried it (2 years ago) it didn’t seem optimized for audio libraries - using it only for video
What features do you need? ReadyMedia aka MiniDLNA will do just fine if you use a UPNP-compliant player.
Just play on my phone, computer and android auto
I have one
/media/musicfolder which I have connected to both Jellyfin and Gonic (Subsonic). I use Gonic because it’s lighter weight than Navidrome and I don’t care about a web interface.FinAmp is the nicest iOS music client I’ve found, and it only works with Jellyfin. On the Mac I recently started using SuperSonic (which is simple but has been more reliable for me than sonixd) which uses Gonic.
play:Sub is the most polished iOS SubSonic client, but I find the UI fussy and hard to use one-handed. Amperfy, SubStreamer, and Soundwaves are all worth trying but each frustrating in their own way. I like Amperfy the best at the moment.
If you’re interested in a self-hosted Fediverse platform for music streaming, you can try out Funkwhale. Though I personally feel like the subsonic compatibility is pretty underwhelming, which makes it annoying to stream music from a phone with a subsonic client.
I saw that one, but in that case I’m a bit frightened by copyright issues.
At work i got permission to colocate my server for free, but if i get a single c&d they’ll kick me out immediately
Hm, why would there be copyright issues with Funkwhale, but not with alternatives like Navidrome? If there would be copyright issues with Funkwhale, they would be there with Navidrome and others too right?
funkwhale is public (if i understood it correctly) while the others will be set as private in tailscale vpn - only accessible by me
Well, you can just use IP whitelist on Funkwhale, so that only your IP can access it. And besides that, there are some privacy settings IIRC, that only allows logged in users to view the library. So if you disable registration, nobody except you can view the library.
plex works great. you can use the official app, plexamp or Prism (iOS)
I use:
- raspberry pi w/Geekworm Raspberry Pi 4B/3B+/3B Full-HD DAC
- snapcast
- librespot-org
- mpd
- home assistant (which is part of a broader setup) to toggle between snap and mpd
I just use Plex for all my media
