Hi peoples!
I’m on Apple Music but I want to expand my setup with music hosting but I have no idea how to approach it. Right now I have nothing and know nothing haha. So if you had a guide or would like to share your setup that would be awesome :)
Everything from a player, through downloader, to organiser and whatever else is needed. I heard that lidarr works in Albums, which I usually don’t use. I’m a “I hear a song, I like it, I save it, forget the author or album” kind of person 😅
Or maybe it’s not worth it at all I don’t know haha
Thanks :)
It’s in a really unfortunate state. FOSS wise, the only thing I can recommend is navidrome, BUT finding a good app for it is REALLY hard.
One step away from that would be plex pass, which is getting enshittified more and more and will likely never reverse course. But if you just want a good self hosted music player, plex pass is much better than navidrome, to the point where you have to be REALLY dedicated to decide on a navidrome solution over plex amp.
Then there’s Roon, which is as far as you can get from a FOSS solution but is unfortunately the best solution to self hosting and streaming combined, and it has an awesome interface where you can read bios of the artists, select a composition of theirs, view any documented covers or interpretations of it, find out everyone who played on a particular song and what they played, then check out their entire range of output, and so on. There’s unfortunately nothing close to Roon for that experience , but Roon still has MAJOR faults and bugs.
So you get nothing and you’ll have to make do with that :\
BTW I’d be stoked to work on a project that aims to make a FOSS version of Roon. I just want to see those fuckers suffer the way I’ve suffered dealing with that horrible program
It is, indeed, in a very unfortunate state - that’s the best description I’ve heard.
I’d have to check navidrome, but so far I think subsonic is the way to go. There are many options for servers and apps, (none of them is particulary awesome,) but I’ve been enjoying my setup of gonic on the server, dsub on the phone and sublime music on the pc.
In the other hand, mpd for is working pretty well for room music - to me, they complement each other.
Navidrome is a subsonic server, feom the cursory research I did before setting it up it is also among the best supported/developed ones available.
Plexamp is free. No need for plex pass. Try it and decide if you like it. Personally I think it’s great for me. Sorting and finding stuff is kinda wonky sometimes.
So it is! Damn I’ll definitely be using this then. At least until they decide to close the gates and force you into a subscription again. For now though, I’d say it’s the best option. But don’t be surprised when they enshittification continues
Tempo is a really good Navidrome Client for Android imo