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[–] BigBlackCockroach@lemmy.world 43 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

To all the friends I never met:

I am running a homeserver with all my music, videos, books, articles, source, etc. here is how you do it↓

  • get a old desktop computer
  • install gnu/linux on it
  • connect it to your router through ethernet
  • install nextcloud
  • install samba, create a smb partition on your new server
  • mount the drive into your regular computer, phone, laptop, tv. smart-stereo.
  • enjoy all your music from anywhere without cluttering your devices with music, movies or books, or articles, or , or, or
  • I usually just use vlc to access any media on my smb share :D just works
  • get the nextcloud-client for phone and your other devices and access your smb share that way if you like and upload fotos, video or music there. :D

Thank me later (also if you use ALL linux devices you can skip the smb part and just use netdriv

[–] pkill@programming.dev 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Jellyfin or Kodi can do the job too. There is a music server written in Rust with a web frontend somewhere on github as well. Managing any software written in PHP is too much PITA for me.

[–] BigBlackCockroach@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've heard of Kodi it's basically like your own netflix, no? Going to investigate Jellyfin along with the other suggestions.

[–] 1couchpotato@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago

Jellyfin is plex but with all the paid features for free.

[–] daFRAKKINpope@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Optional step, steal all the music you like with yarr containers

[–] Zaddy@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I do something similar with Plex. Is it just as smooth as Spotify or is it a little janky like Plex can be.

I've considered doing something like this since I've thrown up the black flag again (fucking streaming services acting like cable). But have been hesitant since music gets released so frequently.

[–] RatzChatsubo@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

Do you use plexamp? It's very nice and smooth for music

[–] BigBlackCockroach@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I guess a lot of people are flying the jolly roger since the streaming services split the big IPs 4 or 5 ways

[–] HurlingDurling@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

Tbh, I've had an even easier time installing TrueNas on an old PC and then installing Nextcloud via their web interface.

[–] apochryphal_triptych@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I store everything on an openmediavault nas and serve up using Plex, Navidrome, Audiobookshelf, and Calibre, all running in Docker containers.

[–] pascal@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I agree. I spun up Navidrome because it's free. Plexamp does require Plex Pass (which I pay for, but others don't)

[–] RatzChatsubo@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Mind sharing your audiobook collection? I'm having a hard time finding good resources

[–] BigBlackCockroach@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Oh my bad I mistyped, I meant I have a collection of books, I don't think I own any audiobooks, but I find a lot of them on youtube.

[–] Overshoot2648@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

I prefer using a Subsonic API based music streaming setup. They work out of the box and have all the features you'd want.