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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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[–] ggwithgg@feddit.nl 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I see nobody mentioning airsonic, the open source fork of subsonic. I tried navidrome but there you can't browse through folders or start a 'radio mode' (i.e. play related stuff in your library).

Another problem I found with navidrome are duplicate files in your library: since it is not folder but tag based, you'll end up with every track double, and there is no nice quick way to just play an album each track played once.

Is there a reason why people prefer navidrome over airsonic? Since I switched I feel so much more in control what I want to play.

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[–] SidewaysHighways@lemmy.world 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)

this is incredible! petty much exactly what i did for myself, minus the *arr part (yet)

also i am dabbling with tempo, and it's been forked with active development!

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[–] nymnympseudonym@piefed.social 8 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (3 children)

Question: did you consider Funkwhale , and if so why did you choose this other stack instead?

EDIT: fix link sry

[–] roofuskit@lemmy.world 10 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Funkwhale is fucking awful. It's awful to setup, it's awful on resource usage, it's awful to manage with multiple users who may share libraries.

I'm not sure how they could fix it without a rewrite.

[–] nymnympseudonym@piefed.social 10 points 4 days ago

TBH I chose Funkwhale for my solution because it looked easy and out of the box, I just add a single Docker and subdomain to my existing site.

It wound up being more or less what you describe.

I may well follow OP's guide and nuke my Funkwhale despite the work I put into it and the fact that it does basically work for its intended purpose

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[–] ZMoney@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

So the first sentence says TV and movie streaming replacement is trivial... Can you elaborate for someone who still uses the pirate bay for movies?

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[–] PieMePlenty@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Yup, been porting all my music to navidrome the past few months and it's pretty sweet. I like that there are native subsonic apps for most platforms (using tempo on android at the moment) and that navidrome also comes with its own web player to use on the fly.

Although my setup is much more simple, just using samba to get files to it and mp3tag to prepare the files if needed.
I initially used nextcloud with its music plugin (includes subsonic server) and its basically remote access + player + server in one, but its not as good imo. I'd rather use software that focuses on one thing and does it well.

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[–] crmsnbleyd@sopuli.xyz 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Your blog is really pretty!

[–] nfreak@lemmy.ml 7 points 4 days ago

Appreciate it! I literally just slapped it together just for this post LOL but I'll probably start using it some more, kinda therapeutic in a way. The assets are all recycled from my streaming days, may as well still get some use out of em

[–] nnullzz@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Anyone have suggestions for an iOS media player I can connect to a setup like this?

[–] windowsphoneguy@feddit.org 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

For Jellyfin I really like Manet and Finamp

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