Hi peoples!
I’m on Apple Music but I want to expand my setup with music hosting but I have no idea how to approach it. Right now I have nothing and know nothing haha. So if you had a guide or would like to share your setup that would be awesome :)
Everything from a player, through downloader, to organiser and whatever else is needed. I heard that lidarr works in Albums, which I usually don’t use. I’m a “I hear a song, I like it, I save it, forget the author or album” kind of person 😅
Or maybe it’s not worth it at all I don’t know haha
Thanks :)
Gonic server with Strawberry and D-Sub
Clementine crashed so often after updates, but it was the only player whos GUI I really liked. So happy to have found Strawberry. It’s been really stable
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My setup is Navidrome, Soulseek and MusicBrainz Picard, each hosted in a docker container.
Whatever music I can’t or don’t care to buy directly on Bandcamp i find on Soulseek. Then, I run the downloaded files through Picard which tags and renames them automatically for me. After which, I put them into the Navidrome directory, it picks them up and lets you stream it in a browser or any app that supports Subsonic servers. I use Feishin on my desktop and Symfonium on my phone for that.
https://github.com/navidrome/navidrome/
https://github.com/realies/soulseek-docker/
https://github.com/mikenye/docker-picardMy music is stored on my real-debrid account, and I use Lidarr and Debrid Media Manager to manage it. For a player/streaming server I’m currently using Jellyfin, but I’ve used Navidrome and Plex in the past and found them to work great.
All my local music is stored on a NAS which Jellyfin also has access to.
edit: For the lazy there’s always SpotifyX for Desktop, and XManager for Android.
I have Jellyfin installed on my homeserver, works great for listening to music in my opinion. I sometimes use Bandcamp to find and buy/download music, which I then upload to Jellyfin.
I use deemon to download my music from Deezer (free account only supports 128kb/s, this is enough for me though).
For the music server I tried both Jellyfin with the Finamp app and Navidrome with the Tempo app on Android.
For desktop app for both I use SonixD/Feishin (crossplatform)
Both where fantastic solutions but I stuck with Navidrome as it was easier to share playlists. (As an URL for non registered users or as public playlist for all registered users)
My setup is as following: Hypervisor: Proxmox VE NAS: TrueNAS Scale (where all music is stored)
1 LXC container with Deemon installed that downloads music in mounted NFS share from TrueNAS
1 VM with Navidrome installed in Docker with the music folder mounted with NFS
You don’t have to use such a setup, you can perfectly do this on your existing PC with Windows, MacOS or Linux with DE. Or server OS like Linux with CLI, OpenMediaVault, TrueNAS Scale or unRAID
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I use Roon right now. Its great if you want to tinker around. I also have Plex which is more plain for music but works well enough.
Plex with Plexamp works really well. Downloading you’ll have to figure out your source for that. There’s many. Ripping straight from Deezer was best when I was doing it. (Deemix when I was going this route).
Meh, Plex is a shady company and there’s tons of good, open source options available
Yep everyone making money is shady.
Open Source or Die!!! /s
Yes, but it works and has support on most devices. I don’t need tons of opensource, I need one that works and that normal people can use.
I know this isn’t what you’re looking for, but I got a family plan from Google for music and split it with 6 family members, which is probably the same as apple music I assume.
I don’t have to mess with download anymore.
Lidarr is only one I know.
Yeah it’s the same. Apple Music is fine, it’s not a problem, I just thought I’d self host it :)
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For playback (ie, self host your own streaming service), you want Airsonic or Navidrome, with any Subsonic compatible app on your devices.
You can also go Jellyfin with Finamp, but it’s a video service first, whereas the others are much more audio focused.
For audiobooks and podcasts, Audiobookshelf. It has its own app.
For downloading music, you want Lidarr or Headphones. Fair warning, the music torrenting scene really died off with Spotify, so you’ll probably want to get on some Usenet groups to have good sources for the releases you want.
If you want to add audiobooks, Readarr can apparently handle that.
I’ll plug another subsonic compatible server here: gonic. It does not have a web player ui, which saves on RAM. And it is really fast too.
+1 for Navidrome and any *sonic client. Been using this setup with Wireguard for years.
Another +1 for navidrome here. Been using it for years now too, it’s great
Organization: Lidarr
Playback: Jellyfin. Android: Finamp/Gelli, Windows: Jellyfin media player
Aquiring: Bandcamp, CDs (either from seller or discogs), SLSK and other sources.I just pay the qobuz subscription and use this inofficial script which can download the high res flac files from qobuz. (You can also buy music on qobuz and you get the flac file without drm or so as a download, compared to other services which don’t give you the file itself)
And then I use jellyfin to host my music library. Jellyfin has many music player apps which you can use.
https://github.com/vitiko98/qobuz-dl
https://jellyfin.org/downloads/clients/all
But most of the time I’m just streaming through qobuz directly.
+1 for Qobuz.
I simply buy the songs singularly, ~2€ a song for the best high-res flac 876Khz 36bit snakeoil-imbued quality one could ever want. You buy it once, it’s yours forever. You can even re-download it if you lose it. It’s converted me from pirating music to buying it. Best example of “piracy is a service issue”.
I too am going from Apple Music to self-hosted.
Personally I run Navidrome on my server. It has a web player for computers and play:Sub has been my mobile player of choice. Also supports offline downloading to your device. Super lightweight as well.
- For acquiring music either I use Freyr-js (which finds the highest quality copy from Youtube/Youtube Music), Nicotine+ (frontend for soulseek) or check against Bandcamp and Soundcloud to see if your artists have uploaded there. Of course always support your favorite artists if you can, if not then 🤷♀️.
If the tags for the music files are incorrect, I use Kid3 to correct them.
