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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I use Jellyfin. You can find a very easy to deploy docker container by linuxserver.io team. Jellyfin has dedicated music only apps as well, for phones as desktops.
Or just run Jellyfin on your desktop and sync the phone app from time to time. Finamp even allows downloads, so no connection to the server needed at all times.
That is a different usecase though. That is simply syncing local musical with a server.
I do that too because i have an SD card. Just use Syncthing for that. Much faster and less hassle. You can use any music player on your phone that you want, not just one that works with jellyfin.
If you aren’t streaming music in real time for the majority of time, then do a phone sync, not a streaming server.
I’ve always wondered that. Why use linux server’s images over official ones? Are they somehow better?
For normal docker self hosters the biggest is similar structures across their images.
It config is always /config
Also they run the same user so it helps with file permission issues
https://www.linuxserver.io/
Hmm, never looked at it this way. I might start using their images too.
Questions about the user:
1- Their docs says it may be risky to run the app as root. Is the root in the docker container same as root of the host? I thought it was root but only in the container, separate from the host root’s namespace.
2- And in terms of volume ownership: if I’m using Docker volumes instead of bind mounts, do I care about that? I haven’t had an issue so far.
When I first used Jellyfin, the official Docker image didn’t have AMD video acceleration working out of the box and the LinuxServer one did.
LinuxServer images often solve problems and work out of the box better than the official option.
I think I’m right in saying they have a standardised and reliable option for running as a none-root user too.
They’re relatively easy to deploy.
I got jellyfin ln my synology nas. Been working fine for a year or two now. Finamp is the dedicated audio app for that.
Maybe this is a stupid question, but what do you achieve with self-hosting music? What do you do with it? If it’s only on localhost then I could just play the music locally? what is it for? :)
I forward it to my domain, so that I can listen to music in my office or anywhere else.
I have a VPS on hetzner, and I forward all my local traffic through that VPS via TLS-passthrough, not TLS termination using WireGuard amd HAProxy.
To know more about my setup, you can this this. https://blog.aiquiral.me/bypass-cgnat
Depends what you want to play it on. In my house we have:
3 laptops 2 tablets 2 mobile phones (1 android, 1 iPhone) TV
Not all these devices support local storage for music and it’s a pain to sync files between them. With Jellyfin the complete library is in one location with a consistent interface. It can also be made available remotely if I choose.
That actually makes a lot of sense, thanks!
Welcome
jellyfin is a streaming server. get yourself a domain name and you can connect your apps to it from anywhere.
You can stream it wherever you are in the world without having to keep it on your phone