hello,

im really tired of google music and spotify, and want to self host my downloaded music and create my library.

however, i know nothing about self hosting. My knowledge is absolutely zero. And Im completely lost about how to self host my own music. Dont find any good tutorial for dummies and i have a lot of question. I dont understand nothing. I see the tutorials of Navidrome and Ampache and still understand nothing. All of that looks extremely complicated to me.

How can i self host my music? I need to pay something? A very old and slow pc is enough?

Im completely lost. If someone can suggest something - like a tutorial , dunno - to build/self host my own music I appreciate a lot.

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  • schizo@forum.uncomfortable.businessEnglish
    21·
    11 days ago

    I’m going to go another route here: do you need streaming?

    Like, I’ve simply gone with a giant pile of FLACs that I put on a SD card for my phone, and use over the NAS for when I’m at home and don’t currently use any fancy-pants streaming stuff.

    So like, depending on how you’re using your music library, you might not even need to drop deep into the giant self-hosting rabbithole for this.

    • vividspecter@lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      11 days ago

      that I put on a SD card for my phone

      Pretty soon you won’t be able to buy a phone without expandable storage. On the plus side, internal storage is going up, but it’s still not big enough to hold a complete FLAC collection if it’s a reasonably large library. You can re-encode your library just for phone usage, but that’s a bit annoying to maintain.

      Also, I’ve found all of the offline music players on Android kind of suck, and don’t support the workflow I like or have bugs.

    • C126@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      11 days ago

      Based on OPs experience this is the best solution.

      If they want to learn, I found plex + plexamp was pretty easy to get going.

    • Yingwu@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      2·
      10 days ago

      I mean, most high-end phones today doesn’t support SD cards so this can be a reason why to selfhost.

    • lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      410·
      11 days ago

      FLACs

      on a phone

      in SD card

      ¿??? it’s not like you’re going to be able to autism at a -0.0002dB disparity on the trumpets channel with those audio chips, why not just store the files there as opus or MP3 for ~6x more capacity? (not to mention faster overall reads)

      • schizo@forum.uncomfortable.businessEnglish
        5·
        11 days ago

        Because I stuck a 1TB sd card in my phone and don’t have to deal with transcoding or dealing with, well, anything, but copying new files over and listening to things.

        I’ve developed quite the liking for stupidly simple solutions, and ‘copy the files to a sd card’ is about as simple as it gets.

          • schizo@forum.uncomfortable.businessEnglish
            2·
            11 days ago

            OPUS is such a delightful format

            Agreed. My audiobook library was transcoded from various formats to 32kbit OPUS and they still sound about the same.

            Shocking how decent it is with spoken voice and stupid low bitrates.

      • vext01@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        2·
        10 days ago

        I’ve been using ogg vorbis for music since about the mid 2000s. In the begining I was ripping them from my CD collection using grip on mandrake Linux (anyone remember?)

        Nowadays I download vorbis direct from bandcamp.

        Recently I compared 192 kbps vorbis files to FLACs and couldn’t discern the difference, which I’m happy about since my 15000 file collection can fit on a very cheap 128GB SD card in my phone.

        I use syncthing to sync music to my phone automatically.

        Really happy with the setup.