Replacing TV and movie streaming services is pretty trivial, and typically one of the first projects for any new self-hoster, but music streaming services are a whole different beast. There's a growing need to replace the likes of Spotify, but there's no one-size-fits-all solution, and maintaining an on-disk music library
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Replacing TV and movie streaming services is pretty trivial, and typically one of the first projects for any new self-hoster, but music streaming services are a whole different beast. There’s a growing need to replace the likes of Spotify, but there’s no one-size-fits-all solution, and maintaining an on-disk music library will always be a lot of manual work. That being said, I’ve put together a stack that I’m happy with for now, and there was some interest in the full details, so I’ll try to slap together a tutorial here.

  • Poem_for_your_sprog@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    4 days ago

    Purchasing the high res (96kHz+) copies of music is really expensive. It would’ve cost me 10x as much or more compared to a few years of Qobuz subscription.

    • Parasail2109@jlai.luEnglish
      6·
      4 days ago

      Yeah, it really expensive (I have spent 300€ at least to rebuilt my library) but on the other hand you own the media, there are couple of albums that Spotify didn’t have or deleted over time. It cheaper to go to subscription but your never know when the service stop deliver the product that you want. And at leat bandcamp give a large amount to tge artist instead of misery of Spotify revenue.

    • hitmyspot@aussie.zoneEnglish
      3·
      3 days ago

      There is sunk cost in subscription. Sure it may have cost you more now. Will that still be true in 5 years? 10? At what point do you foresee cancelling the subscription, or are you now locked in for life?

      • Poem_for_your_sprog@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        3 days ago

        My current favorites list is 510 albums. That’s around $10,000 over 4 years not counting the ones I didn’t favorite…that’s like 70 years worth of streaming.

        I actually prefer to purchase movies though. Streaming quality video is too bad.

        • hitmyspot@aussie.zoneEnglish
          1·
          3 days ago

          That’s not necessarily a complete list of songs you listen to. I don’t know it could be. I’ve been subscribing to Spotify for years. Probably 10. Given the monthly cost is about the cost of an album, and I had maybe 100 prior and my husband had 100+ also, were both likely worse off.

          I subscribe for another 10 years and I’m even worse off. I also stream lots of movies at home. I don’t purchase them though.

          It’s a shame we don’t have a system that allows you to subscribe for a reasonable fee to then own the music you listen to after a certain number of listens.