De-Clouding: Music - Hacker News

Posted by surprisetalk 7 days ago

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rckt 3 days ago|

I created my own cloud, exposing my Apache WebDAV server via DDNS. Using Evermusic for iOS and simply mounting it as a folder on my laptops.

sailorganymede 3 days ago||

I'm considering this idea currently because ATM all the Pink Floyd albums on streaming platforms have names describing the image instead of the original artwork (I assume for the WYWH anniversary.) What it reminded me was that we don't own anything they host so I look forward to exploring this as well.

dijit 3 days ago|

and, they can remove things arbitrarily, even things you paid for.

keep backups for anything you value.

https://blog.dijit.sh/importance-of-self-hosted-backups/

sailorganymede 3 days ago||

Getting a net::ERR_CERT_DATE_INVALID on your blog :/

dijit 3 days ago||

Seems like it expired 15 minutes ago... It should be fixed now; something must be wrong with the letsencrypt auto-renew, I'll look into it properly.

Thanks for letting me know. :)

LeoPanthera 3 days ago||

Discogs is amazing. Virtually every second hand record store on the planet is on there, so you can search up virtually any CD that exists, buy it, and have it mailed to you in a few days. I buy so much stuff there.

I often wish there was a Discogs equivalent for DVDs, but there doesn't seem to be.

an_aparallel 3 days ago|

Discogs was amazing, its sadly now a shit show. I refuse to buy from it or add to its database any more.

LeoPanthera 3 days ago||

That's such an odd thing to say with absolutely no justification.

walthamstow 3 days ago||

Petrichor is indeed a fabulous name, Ross. Love for that smell is the mark of a true Briton.

nunobrito 3 days ago||

Friends: what suggestions do you have for offline voice-controlled music playing?

The music is on the disk, how can we get away from having to use Alexa or similar for listening music that is on our libraries using voice control? Thanks in advance.

arximboldi 3 days ago||

My music collection is 1.2TB. Most VPS only offer 40-100GB on the cheap tiers. For now I just keep it local...

Any suggestions for storage oriented VPS that I can use for this use case and other backup/storage use cases?

dwedge 1 day ago||

Hetzner storage box mounted to a cheap VPS

xnzakg 3 days ago|||

Seedboxes often have TBs of storage for relatively cheap.

qmmmur 3 days ago||

Maybe look at turning your collection into wavpack or flac?

zuInnp 3 days ago||

I did the same like 2 years ago, but I am using Plex on my NAS. That gives me both, flexibility and owning my music. Only downside is that I don’t want to open ports to the outside, so I use WireGuard on my router.

10729287 3 days ago|

The issue here is that you are subject to future policies of Plex and I think you should think about alternative from now regarding their recent moves and history.

zuInnp 3 days ago||

I also have tried Emby, that worked great too. I installed it via docker and have both Plex and Emby running.

aitchnyu 3 days ago||

Is there a workflow of fetching individual songs and getting recommended songs? I'm now firmly in Spotify, I used to have whole albums and "scrobbled" my playlist to Last.fm.

p0w3n3d 3 days ago||

For me Foobar2000 just works on macos

tern 3 days ago|

I had a look at Petrichor and Doppler, but the feature-set is incredibly limited. Foobar2000, while strange to use, at least allows me to do basic things like navigate my library by genre.

Try this in: View > Layout > Edit Layout

  splitter horizontal style=thin
   splitter vertical style=thin
    splitter horizontal style=thin
     tabs
      albumlist tab-name="Album List"
      refacets tab-name="Refacets"
    playlist 
    splitter horizontal style=thin   
     tabs
      splitter horizontal style=thin tab-name="Now Playing"
       albumart
       selection-properties sections=metadata
      playlist-picker tab-name="Playlists"
   playback-controls

https://www.foobar2000.org/mac

Liquix 3 days ago|

obligatory plug for Navidrome [0], a "personal spotify server" which is simple to set up and allows playback + offline caching on any desktop/mobile device. it's a really polished piece of self-hosted software.

although there is something refreshing about the simplicity and resiliency of OP's setup.

[0] https://www.navidrome.org/