DITCH Spotify and Self-Host your Streaming!

I tried these self hosting but I kinda prefer putting actual files on my phone. I tried plexamp but It fix some of my music collection's metadata. also I don't use mobile wifi on outside anyway.

holyshit this is good tutorial. I am using ubuntu > docker > mount synology > synolog music storage > substreamer

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best Self-Host (at least for me) is filezilla server.
easily mount on any device with any OS as "folder/drive"

Linode is great and all, and maybe it's just paranoia, but I wouldn't feel completely comfortable stuffing a VPS with copyrighted content, even if it's fair use and you aren't distributing it 🤔

Stop using spotify just create your own server.
Where I will get those songs tho?

bandcamp is really great for artists in comparison and you get a nice zip of music files in your preferred audio format.

Do they have a Roku client? That would make it simple to get on my big stereo rig.

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the important issue with this that no one seems to mention for some reason is that you never get new music. with any (except for mpd) self-hosted music/video streaming service, you never get new content unless you manually add it yourself, which implies uploading it yourself manually from an external source. this isn't an issue as long as you run your service alongside Spotify, so you can have your self-hosted lossless library and add songs you like which you find on Spotify, but at that point you're not looking at a Spotify replacement

the only service which combined those two was mpd, but it's rather janky to set up and the spotify integration no longer works due to libspotify being deprecated by the guys at Spotify. in theory there's a Tidal library which you can integrate within mpd, but in my experience it's been buggy at best. all other services are the essentially same thing with a different interface - read a local library and serve it through web/an app, which is not a replacement for a music streaming service

I'm sick of SoundCloud randomly removing songs in my playlists, so this will be something I'll have to play around with.

Great idea but I haven't been downloading music since I got spotify like way back when it came to the states. So i'm like ten years behind.

add the user to the docker group, and you can run docker as normal user.

Navidrome is freaking awesome and so much less intensive on the CPU as well as faster as Airsonic or any of the other Subsonic variants.
I have it running for a couple of months now after seeing it in another video - I believe it was one of Wendell's - and don't want to miss it anymore.
Runs fine off a Pi 2 even which is very handy now that electricity prices keep rising.
Highly recommended!

Here's a better idea: but the movie/music you want to listen if possible so you don't depend to subscriptions.

If you're trying to switch to open source, why use Docker when Podman is an option?

I really think the main issue is we don't have real alternatives for getting access to the content we want in the first place.
The server and player are mostly irrelevant and solved technologies with virtually infinite open source options, no one is paying Spotify or Netflix for their player.

Their software is inferior but it's either that or piracy if you want to hear to your favorite artists and watch your favorite series/movies. It doesn't help that buying downloadable content prices make no sense comparing to streaming subscription prices, it's a lost war.

Self hosting implies free. This is sadly not a free option

Could you use this with mobile also?

This is only good if your time is worthless.
The only benefit I see is playing content that Spotify does not have. Just use Spotify local files with a cloud provider.

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Just for those interested, Navidrome is focused on security and only has read permissions to the file, so you will have to edit the metadata of the files directly, since you can't edit them from the web interface nor app clients. In fact, most of the things can't be edited, not even add artist info and stuff like that. It would be good if they added that but the devs are pretty focused on security more than features

I won't point out that you are using your MacBook and not your usual Linux rig! =)

Great job Mr. TechHut, keep these awesome videos coming!

This might be better in some ways, but I still have an ampache docker running. It hosts the library I use for my radio. If I knew about 'Navidrome' earlier, I might have used it instead! Ampache is fine though, so I won't switch.

I just buy cds and stuff not streaming

I use Ibroadcast it's how Google play music used to be.

how can i send out my jellyfin to friends and family outside my network

Reading comments one simple fact that lots of people seem to forget to mention but very important for people watching these sort of videos. That fact is that there is value in not supporting companies like Spotify and many prefer to look for alternatives, even when they are not convenient or cheaper. I’ll leave it there since it’s worth mentioning.

Hi TechHut! Have you heard of beets, a media Server platform (I think)? What are your thoughts on it and will you make a tutorial for it? Thank you!

Thank you, was searching for something like this for longer.

Good idea but im not trying to buy 400+ licenses for 400+ songs

well i am not downloading all the songs i listen to. it is basically unsustainable. also being able to see recommendations while listening to a song is a must have feature for me.

Would it not be easier to just have an rpi set up streaming your music from home? And just opening a port for your access.

And now people will be back to pirating.

I have a lazier route, just copy my .MP3 library onto a USB drive, then let the car player sort it out. That means two copies to update, but I don't need anything to be on 'the cloud.' Your mileage will likely vary..

Please does anyone has an alternative substreamer. I don't like this app because it put the media controls in a notification and doesn't use android's dedicated media player section.

Thanks for the video. I am surprised on how many really good, useful application can be run on docker these days. Just a comment base on the steps outlined in the video. If you add group "docker" to your user, there's no need to use "sudo" when execute either "docker" or "docker-compose", Just be sure to manually create the docker volume folders using your user before creating the containers.

If I'm giving Linode $5 why not just give $10 to spotify and not have to buy any music?

I might just do this with my purchased music. I support a lot of artists on bandcamp but the bandcamp player is garbage. Thanks for the video. I’ll probably still stream with mainstream artists since I’m not giving the artist money or spending my time downloading.

is this better than Sonic?

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Self hosting your own music collection is frankly not much different than using an IPod back in the day and is in no way a substitute for a streaming service like Spotify. It gives you zero exposure to artists who you don't already own. I love linux and open source, but this is not even close to the same functionality.

pros and cons vs Jellyfin?

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Yep. I installed navidrome a few months ago on my raspberry pi after searching for a solution for quite a long time, after they shutdown google play music. Right now my setup is:

Navidrome and deemix downloader on RPI > Backup to google drive folder every day > Syncing with my phone every hour automatically > Music app of your choice

Before that I did something similar, downloading songs on my pc, uploading them to google drive and then syncing to my phone, but I didn't have the same library on my phone and PC/Browser and no simple way of listening music on different pc (work office pc) without downloading the files. So navidrome is a godsent.