Replacing Music Streaming Services with a Self-hosted Stack
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Replacing TV and movie streaming services is pretty trivial, and typically one of the first projects for any new self-hoster, but music streaming services are a whole different beast. There's a growing need to replace the likes of Spotify, but there's no one-size-fits-all solution, and maintaining an on-disk music library

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.

  • Blindsite@lemmy.todayEnglish
    48·
    1 day ago

    One of the main advantages of Spotify for me is the AI. I could host the music myself just fine. But having an AI come up custom playlists is another thing entirely.

    • jnod4@lemmy.caEnglish
      8·
      1 day ago

      It’s not even AI, music players have been doing this for ages. It’s tagging and labeling of the songs

    • mriormro@lemmy.zipEnglish
      41·
      1 day ago

      If you’re not trying to cultivate your own tastes then you’re just letting a corporate blackbox drive your interests and aesthetics.

      • notarobot@lemmy.zipEnglish
        21·
        1 day ago

        Like radio then?

        Also that always happens. You don’t always discover the best band but you are more likely to discover the ones that spend more on marketing