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how can i self host my music? (toast.ooo)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 day ago (12 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 hours ago (4 children)

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? :)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago

You can stream it wherever you are in the world without having to keep it on your phone

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago

jellyfin is a streaming server. get yourself a domain name and you can connect your apps to it from anywhere.

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