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.

ty

    • meneervana@lemm.eeEnglish
      4·
      5 hours ago

      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? :)

      • nutbutter@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        3·
        56 minutes 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

      • SquiffSquiff@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        4 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.

      • lime!@feddit.nuEnglish
        2·
        4 hours ago

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

    • Quail4789@lemmy.mlEnglish
      5·
      13 hours ago

      I’ve always wondered that. Why use linux server’s images over official ones? Are they somehow better?

      • Nurgus@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        4 hours ago

        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.

      • Lem453@lemmy.caEnglish
        4·
        11 hours ago

        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/

    • windowsphoneguy@feddit.orgEnglish
      8·
      1 day ago

      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.

      • JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nlEnglish
        1·
        8 hours ago

        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.