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Part of the magic of Spotify is the shuffling.
Anyone can upload .mp4's to a server and stream it from an app.
More than that, why not just download .mp4's to your phone?
https://github.com/Kickball/awesome-selfhosted#media-streaming
Emby
What features are you actually looking for?
Just get a good music player with a usable shuffle function.
https://f-droid.org/en/packages/souch.smp/ works for me.
Then just copy your music to your phone and play it from there.
There's no need to be "media streaming" from a "service" to just listen to your music.
What about the license ?
I've been using Subsonic for a couple years now, highly recommended!
There's several Android apps that are compatible with it. Personally I prefer DSub -- you can get the apk for free from their Github page.
Sure there is. I can't stand radio and I can't stand ads. I'd rather not copy around 200GB+ of music to all my computers/devices so a selfhosted streaming service is the way to go. Central spot that you can listen to music from your phone, computers (at home/at work), etc.
This is still mostly flawed.
The main purpose in my opinion of Spotify or Radio is to discover new music.
Plus, licensing issues. Depending on who you host it with you could get kicked out for personal use.
It would be cheaper to spend $10 on Spotify than have to use 200GB of a HDD or SSD alone likely. Not includng bandwidth, power, etc.
There's certain things self hosting is made for, this is not really one of them.
If your music is all FLAC, create a downconverted copy specifically for use on the go.
Another big thing is to hand-pick only favorite tracks or at least albums, for the smartphone. No need to copy entire artist discographies there. Don't know about you, but I don't want to be listening to fluff and fillers while I'm out walking or commuting, it needs to be only the best stuff, so that I am never urged to push the "skip track" button (besides, that's usually too much hassle while on the go).
Typically people have just one smartphone, it's doable copying it there; and if you know
rsync, it's also easy to keep the non-primary computers synced up with your main collection -- and most importantly all of these count as extra backups -- if it's your music collection, I doubt you can have too many of those.plex will do it quite nicely
All depends on what OP is interested in doing. Sure if he's trying to discover new music, then a selfhosted solution certainly isn't the solution. But if he's just trying to stream his existing music collection, then it's a perfect fit.
I host it on a server at home, so no issues there. Downloading the music is a different discussion all together, which I won't get into. But just serving your downloaded music to yourself -- what's the issue there? I didn't get the impression he was trying to sell this service for hundreds of others to use.
Like I said, nothing beats free -- self hosted from home. Also, believe it or not -- Spotify doesn't have everything known to man. That's like telling someone who wants to stream their movies to just sign up for Netflix instead of using Plex, for example.
That's your opinion. Maybe more details about the OP's purpose with this could help clarify things for us more. For me, it's a perfect fit.
What really annoys me about Dsub is that it doesn't stream files but rather downloads them and plays them after.
As someone who has a lot FLAC 1h+ tracks it always takes a few minutes till a new track plays.
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Plex on mobile requires a license
Doesn't that describe all streaming services, though? You're downloading the media in advance of you needing it into a buffer so you can watch/listen to it. You can limit DSub's pre-fetching in the settings if you really don't want to download the next songs in your queue in advance.
Edit: I think I realize what the issue is so my statement above is probably nonsense. I guess I never realized it waits till the songs is fully downloaded before starting to play it. Could definitely see the problem there for large files (FLAC, etc.)
You could use your browser instead of the app. That should work without a license right? I use plex a lot to stream to my Sonos systems and that works flawlessly.
For me as an ampache user that doesn't work, the web interface isn't mobile optimized.
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A one time fee of like £3?
Sounds like you are looking for this: https://github.com/phanan/koel
I see... I usually use one of my tablets and I have plex added as a channel in my Sonos app so never really checked how it looks on mobile. Good to know. Please keep us posted on your experiences if you find something decent!
Most of the common media server software/apps support most audio formats.
Looking good... will try that myself as well when I have some time to kill. Thanks.
I'm using Plex for that, any storage vps will do fine since Plex uses very minimal resources when used only for music.
Plex. With Google drive works perfectly for this, all you need is a measly vps with fuse