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For those that are interested in self-hosting I’ve had good success with airsonic and some of the clients for it on both iOS and Android. On one hand it makes

For those that are interested in self-hosting I’ve had good success with airsonic and some of the clients for it on both iOS and Android. On one hand it makes search a little more high-friction since My personal library will never be as huge as that of a streaming service. My workaround is treat Spotify like a radio and star songs I like to then download later. In that way it’s a lot like interacting with music before streaming. It also forces me to curate a bit more. Probably not for everyone, but I actually like it better, and I know that my library will always be there.

benologist 6y ago
I host mine too because I'm not interested in paying ~$100/year for the rest of my life to access music, this is like welfare for tech giants and record companies and very little even trickles down to musicians. I got a Synology NAS and these days I just run the Synology operating system in a virtual machine and it's accessible via web UI or mobile apps and backs up to the cloud, this has served me very well for years now.
mayneack 6y ago
The google -> youtube music transition finally got me to self host too. I've been pretty happy with plex. Getting my playlists out has actually been the only sticking point, so this has inspired me to see if there's a reasonable export option there too.
leokennis 6y ago
My self hosting solution at the moment is: - Upload music to a webserver (can be anything, like Google Drive or in my case a OwnCloud server) - Connect Astiga (https://asti.ga/ https://asti.ga/) to it, which turns your storage (can be multiple storages, like some music on DropBox and some on an FTP or whatever) into a music library. For €24/year it will auto sync any changes automatically 24 times per day. - Use the Astiga app (Android) or any SubSonic app (on iOS play:Sub is passable) to browse this library from your phone To be honest, stuff like Apple Music is way more convenient. But I have my baseline of albums I “need to have” in lossless (and where possible hi-res) format in Astiga, perfectly tagged. Especially in case my rented access via Apple Music to this music is suddenly fucked with.

benologist 6y ago

I host mine too because I'm not interested in paying ~$100/year for the rest of my life to access music, this is like welfare for tech giants and record companies and very little even trickles down to musicians. I got a Synology NAS and these days I just run the Synology operating system in a virtual machine and it's accessible via web UI or mobile apps and backs up to the cloud, this has served me very well for years now.

mayneack 6y ago

The google -> youtube music transition finally got me to self host too. I've been pretty happy with plex. Getting my playlists out has actually been the only sticking point, so this has inspired me to see if there's a reasonable export option there too.

leokennis 6y ago

My self hosting solution at the moment is: - Upload music to a webserver (can be anything, like Google Drive or in my case a OwnCloud server) - Connect Astiga (https://asti.ga/ https://asti.ga/) to it, which turns your storage (can be multiple storages, like some music on DropBox and some on an FTP or whatever) into a music library. For €24/year it will auto sync any changes automatically 24 times per day. - Use the Astiga app (Android) or any SubSonic app (on iOS play:Sub is passable) to browse this library from your phone To be honest, stuff like Apple Music is way more convenient. But I have my baseline of albums I “need to have” in lossless (and where possible hi-res) format in Astiga, perfectly tagged. Especially in case my rented access via Apple Music to this music is suddenly fucked with.