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how can i self host my music? (toast.ooo)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by zeromoney@toast.ooo to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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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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[–] schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business 21 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I'm going to go another route here: do you need streaming?

Like, I've simply gone with a giant pile of FLACs that I put on a SD card for my phone, and use over the NAS for when I'm at home and don't currently use any fancy-pants streaming stuff.

So like, depending on how you're using your music library, you might not even need to drop deep into the giant self-hosting rabbithole for this.

[–] Yingwu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 years ago

I mean, most high-end phones today doesn't support SD cards so this can be a reason why to selfhost.

[–] C126@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago

Based on OPs experience this is the best solution.

If they want to learn, I found plex + plexamp was pretty easy to get going.

[–] vividspecter@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

that I put on a SD card for my phone

Pretty soon you won't be able to buy a phone without expandable storage. On the plus side, internal storage is going up, but it's still not big enough to hold a complete FLAC collection if it's a reasonably large library. You can re-encode your library just for phone usage, but that's a bit annoying to maintain.

Also, I've found all of the offline music players on Android kind of suck, and don't support the workflow I like or have bugs.