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.

  • Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org
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    17 days ago
    1. Closed non-federated streaming platform; requires an Internet connection.
    2. Requires a subscription for a lot of basic functionality.
    3. Even though it requires a subscription, they barely pay artists - the only ongoing benefit to using a non-pirate setup.
    4. The increasing amount of “Perfect Fit Content” & LLM-generated music in playlists to avoid said payments.
    5. They provide a guaranteed platform to political podcasts.
    6. Audio quality is not only dependent on the subscription, but even the top-tier is generally subpar and can vary based on how they throttle you that day.
    7. As a platform for mass appeal, discoverability is, loosely speaking, crud.

    Pick any of those you like.