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how are my fellow peeps hosting your music collection these days? (lemmy.world)
submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days 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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[–] vext01@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 5 days ago (3 children)

I just use syncthing to copy music to my phone sd card.

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

[–] cyberwolfie@lemmy.ml 5 points 5 days ago

Hosted on Jellyfin, Feishin on laptop and Finamp on mobile.

[–] solrize@lemmy.ml 6 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (5 children)

https://biggaybunny.tumblr.com/post/166787080920/tech-enthusiasts-everything-in-my-house-is-wired

I just have a bunch of media files (.ogg, .mp3, etc.) in directories and play them with mplayer from the command line. Playlist = shell script that plays some group of files. I use old school track numbering (01-whatever, 02-whatsit, etc.) though, so most of the time "mplayer *" is how I play an album and the tracks play automatically in the right order. I don't understand the purpose of anything fancier. Now get off my lawn.

[–] metaStatic@kbin.earth 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I host my media on a bookshelf and play it through a stereo

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[–] 4k93n2@lemmy.zip 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

after using jellyfin and emby for a long while ive gone back to basics, just local mp3s synced between devices using syncthing

something like KDE Connect might work for remote control as long as you are able to install it on both devices

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[–] Zykino@programming.dev 4 points 5 days ago

Nextcloud.

And a subsonic app. There is also another protocol available so you have quite the choice for which you prefer. Currently using Tempo.

[–] DrunkAnRoot@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 days 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 5 days 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 5 days 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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[–] irmadlad@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days 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 5 days 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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[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 3 points 5 days 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.

[–] bitwolf@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

Plex + Synfonium

Also

Navidrome + Synfonium / Tempo

I'm trying out different things in prep to switch to navidrome. I'm impressed how lightweight it is and it hasnt required much work to fix up the library tags as most were already minimally tagged.

One I figure out a secure way to expose it behind auth I'll be able to switch over.

Its been a heck of a time trying to get forwardAuth working with Zitadel so I'm trying out Authelia

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