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owntone-server
- Spotify/Youtube Music alternative?
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Bose SoundTouch WiFi Audio Streaming
There are a few dockers that seem to be able to do what you want. Some can stream local audio to airplay devices what might work with a bit of scripting for your white noise and others might work as a Chromecast to Airplay bridge https://github.com/philippe44/AirConnect https://github.com/1activegeek/docker-airconnect
- How do I use Server as Speakers?
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Forte - An open-source, self-hosted music platform with lots of features!
Check it out; https://github.com/owntone/owntone-server
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Need help setting up local network only MPD server.
Check out Owntone, it supports MPD. https://owntone.github.io/owntone-server/
- Selfhosted Spotify / YouTube Music alternative.
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Spotifyd
I used something different. Basic details for your entertainment/edification/comedy source material follow mostly so you can shortcut a comparison if you're building something at your place.
1) Pi-zero running shairport-sync (couldn't get them, got orange-pi zero 2 which works great) https://github.com/mikebrady/shairporait-sync. I have a few of these.
2) Class D amp, Aiyima, Fosi, Loxjie etc Aliexpress is one place to get these. I've used and like Aiyima A03 and their ali store delivers fast.
3) Some nice, high-quality, 2nd hand speakers you like. Wharfedale, JBL, B&W, Acoustic Research, Yamaha. (Or get some active speakers you like and skip #2, eg B&O beolab 6000)
4) owntone (formerly known as forked-daapd) https://owntone.github.io/owntone-server/
5) configure owntone with your spotify premium, takes less than a minute. (And with your music that you own - takes longer because you take more care).
You now have a multiroom setup with fantastic sound that you can control with http://owntone.local:3689/ including with your phone. And/or you can use the "Retune" app on droid and apple's "itunes remote" app on ios. Better sound than most alternatives for less dollars.
All integrates well with Homeasistant because of course it does.
I really like how mine turned out. Having half a dozen sets of speakers all playing the same music in perfect sync as you move from one room to another while doing chores on the weekend fills me with more joy that I would have guessed. YMMV.
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Modernizing my 1980s sound system
Which is especially nice if you install Owntone ( https://github.com/owntone/owntone-server/ ) -- now you have a nice web interface for playing music to any or all of your systems.
Yes, you wouldn't get this running on an existing smart speaker (without first rooting it and some serious hacking).
If you'r in the Apple ecosystem and are using AirPlay with your smart speaker(s), it's however possible to also play synchronized audio across to your own DIY speaker setup, using another open source project.
https://github.com/mikebrady/shairport-sync
Or you could of course choose to only use your old dumb speakers with this, and they will pop up as easily selectable sound output devices on all Apple devices connected to your network.
Or combine it (and librespot[2], owntone[3]...) with Snapcast to create a virtual speaker for your whole house that shows up everywhere.
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Record player to HomePod
I have a working setup using an USB audio grabber and a Raspberry Pi running OwnTone (for AirPlay output) and cpiped (for automatic playback).
Navidrome Music Server
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.NET 8 Standalone 50% Smaller On Linux
Jellyfin is great for movies & shows. As an anecdote, it's not so good for music if you're a collector. I personally use Navidrome for that[0].
Anyway, Sonarr[1] makes use of .NET, too. Very reliable software, in my experience.
- Navidrome: Open-Source Software to enjoy your music collection from anywhere
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Building a digital music collection in 2023
Please don't reencode your entire collection to "save space", or use git for version control.
Put your lossless files on a server as a source-of-truth (with a regular cold backup somewhere else) and install a streaming server, like Navidrome[1], which will allow you to transcode on-the-fly to all of your devices. This is how you build a true "digital music collection": so that you won't regret it 5 years from now, when the site you bought your flac's from closed down/erased your files, leaving you solely with the reencoded mp3/opus files you kept, unable to move to better formats as they progress.
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My simple Music Stack
Navidrome - a music streaming server. This is what servers my phone. I use substreamer to listen on my phone
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Server-side alternative to SoundCloud?
Could use Navidrome, you can create logins for friends.
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Unorthodox Things to Self Host?
You should check out Navidrome. I've been using it for music alongside Jellyfin for other media. It supports scrobbling to multiple endpoints (including Last.FM of course), and supports the subsonic API for clients. I use D-Sub on Android.
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How do you handle multiple identically named albums from the same artist?
Slowdive and Weather Report have two self-titled releases a piece, Slowdive from 1990 and 2017, Weather Report from 1971 and 1982. Given that Navidrome is someone limited in how it indexes releases (if I understand this correctly), this is somewhat of an issue.
There’s a pending PR that treats albums with different release dates as different albums, which would solve this: https://github.com/navidrome/navidrome/pull/2162
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Any way to stream my nearly 2TB library from my iPhone?
If you want to stream from your Mac, I recommend Navidrome. It has both iOS clients and a web front-end. You'd need to have the Mac running. Unless you explore offline cache via client.
What are some alternatives?
Airsonic - :satellite: :cloud: :notes:Airsonic, a Free and Open Source community driven media server (fork of Subsonic and Libresonic)
Jellyfin - The Free Software Media System
airsonic-advanced
Ampache - A web based audio/video streaming application and file manager allowing you to access your music & videos from anywhere, using almost any internet enabled device.
gonic - music streaming server / free-software subsonic server API implementation
koel - 🐦 A personal music streaming server that works.
Subsonic - Home of the DSub Android client fork
Volumio - Volumio 2 - Audiophile Music Player
balena-sound - Build a single or multi-room streamer for an existing audio device using a Raspberry Pi! Supports Bluetooth, Airplay and Spotify Connect
mpd - Music Player Daemon
RPiPlay - An open-source AirPlay mirroring server for the Raspberry Pi. Supports iOS 9 and up.
reverse-proxy-confs - These confs are pulled into our SWAG image: https://github.com/linuxserver/docker-swag