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Been seeing a lot of posts about replacing Spotify and such, so I wrote up a guide on how I did just that (badabingus.ghost.io)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by nfreak@lemmy.ml to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Full disclosure, I'm pretty new to selfhosting myself, and I haven't written a guide like this before, but hopefully this scatterbrained writeup is enough for someone out there lmao

This is just what works for me and how I set it up. Always open to ideas for improvement as well.

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[–] qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 20 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I've honestly never understood people who feel the need to "replace" Spotify. ... Spotify has never made sense for my use-case.

I don't know how to say this, but...you have extremely uncommon use-cases:

...during those times, my phone is either fully turned off (so I'll use an MP3 player), or it's in Airplane Mode.

Many people listen to music on stereos and don't necessarily want a device plugged in, so

I just download the music I like to my device and listen to it via VLC.

either doesn't work or is substantially less convenient than e.g. casting from a phone.

Not hating on your setup at all, but it's very niche, in my experience.

[–] Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org 1 points 9 months ago

Fair enough. My whole life has basically been defined as "very niche" since about 2012. But then again, I basically only use music to shut out the world. And yes, I said use, not enjoy. It's basically a source of predictable noise that acts as a filter to the more random noise around me so I don't have more issues than usual. That's why staying in-genre matters and Pandora helps - it matches based on the predictable traits.