Blackcandy: Self hosted music streaming server

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Black Candy

#Audio & Music #Media Players And Streaming Platforms #Music Streaming

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Vox Music Player

I’ve been searching for services that host personal music collections, but there doesn’t seem to be much available. I came across a product called Vox [1], which I might try. There are also plenty of self-hosted projects of varying quality (but I hadn’t seen Black Candy before). I'd like a service where I can upload a large folder of MP3s, and it would help organize them into albums, perform useful processing like ReplayGain normalization, BPM and key analysis, etc. It should also have a good playlist manager and player for desktop and mobile. Some existing services allow you to add your own music files, like MP3s, but this often feels like a second-class citizen. Services like SoundCloud are focused more on social interactions, which I don’t really need. Have I missed any services like this? There's some growing dissatisfaction around algorithm-driven music services like Spotify. Also, these services carry the risk of music disappearing for various reasons. I think a service allowing curation of own MP3 collections could appeal a significant fraction of all music lovers out there. -- 1: https://vox.rocks/.

#Media Player #Audio Player #Video Player 10 social mentions

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Gonic

I tried this (among a bunch of others) about a year ago and landed on Gonic[1] for the server and Supersonic[2] on PC and Amperfy[3] on mobile. Yes it's a few different tools to maintain (plus beets etc), but it's the ideal set of features etc for me. Self-hosting has been fun and I've started experimenting with local LLMs to build playlists which is helping discoverability.. Or more /rediscovering/ artists that I haven't listened to in a while [1] <a href="https://github.com/sentriz/gonic/">https://github.com/sentriz/gonic/</a>.

#Audio & Music #Media Players And Streaming Platforms #Media Servers 2 social mentions

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iBroadcast

I use iBroadcast[0], it's a service dedicated exactly for this. Costs me a bit each year but I've felt it worth it. There's some differences to organising in iTunes like the handling of compilation albums that I'm not so fond of but you can see how it works on the free tier. The browser client only does 128 kbps streaming but their mobile client can set the streaming quality (I have it at 256, max is 320) and I'm working on my own PWA client using their API that I've also set to 256, which would work on both mobile and desktop. You can also set the browser client to stream the original file directly but browsers don't play most of my formats like ALAC so it just doesn't play anything then. [0] https://ibroadcast.com/.

#Music Streaming #Online Music #Audio Player 5 social mentions

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Astiga

Huge shout out to astiga which I've used for a year and a half. It'll run a streaming service for you out of cloud storage (eg s3, but also stuff like dropbox or google drive). I'd love to self host but have a toddler and not much time, so astiga is a great "take my money and do it for me" kind of service! [0] https://asti.ga.

#Media Player #Audio Player #Media Players And Streaming Platforms 41 social mentions

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TailScale

#Security & Privacy #VPN #Cloud VPN 520 social mentions

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selfh.st

#Software Marketplace #Software Recommendations #Security & Privacy

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Nginx Proxy Manager

Most people will use nginx-proxy [0] or Traefik [1] for front ending home labs with LetsEncrypt certs... Beyond that people will protect them with things like Tailscale [2], Cloudflare Tunnels [3] or even just mTLS [4] for protected access. Home labbing today has a lot of amazing software and it's hard to keep up! And as for dashboarding [5] on top of all this there are a lot of options. [0] https://nginxproxymanager.com/.

#Load Balancers #Proxy #Web Servers 293 social mentions