DITCH Spotify and Self-Host your Streaming! 

Just for those interested, Navidrome is focused on security and only has read permissions to the file, so you will have to edit the metadata of the files directly, since you can't edit them from the web interface nor app clients. In fact, most of the things can't be edited, not even add artist info and stuff like that. It would be good if they added that but the devs are pretty focused on security more than features

Reading comments one simple fact that lots of people seem to forget to mention but very important for people watching these sort of videos. That fact is that there is value in not supporting companies like Spotify and many prefer to look for alternatives, even when they are not convenient or cheaper. I’ll leave it there since it’s worth mentioning.

Thank you, was searching for something like this for longer.

Thanks for the video. I am surprised on how many really good, useful application can be run on docker these days. Just a comment base on the steps outlined in the video. If you add group "docker" to your user, there's no need to use "sudo" when execute either "docker" or "docker-compose", Just be sure to manually create the docker volume folders using your user before creating the containers.

Yep. I installed navidrome a few months ago on my raspberry pi after searching for a solution for quite a long time, after they shutdown google play music. Right now my setup is: Navidrome and deemix downloader on RPI > Backup to google drive folder every day > Syncing with my phone every hour automatically > Music app of your choice Before that I did something similar, downloading songs on my pc, uploading them to google drive and then syncing to my phone, but I didn't have the same library on my phone and PC/Browser and no simple way of listening music on different pc (work office pc) without downloading the files. So navidrome is a godsent.

I actually did this with foobar years before I started using spotify. with a foobar plugin , fooupnp I think and an app that was able to access my ip I simply shared all my music and when I wanted something I didn't have I sent a torrent with those files to my utorrent web client and after 5 minutes I had the music I wanted streamed from my computer. But organizing all this became tedious and I am not really that much into music now so I stopped using it. This is for nerds that still download flacs. I used to be one of those.

Navidrome is freaking awesome and so much less intensive on the CPU as well as faster as Airsonic or any of the other Subsonic variants. I have it running for a couple of months now after seeing it in another video - I believe it was one of Wendell's - and don't want to miss it anymore. Runs fine off a Pi 2 even which is very handy now that electricity prices keep rising. Highly recommended!

Sir I have installed fedora 36 workstation and it's been 2 days now and I'm facing an issue for a while, with the wireless network. Everytime I try to open browser or update my system or open RU-vid or suffer through internet I got a really slow network speed I have a fast broadband and a try a lot of ways to fix that problem but the problem wasn't to solve. Seems to be a driver problem kindly make a video to fix that problem that would help me out a lot

I'm sick of SoundCloud randomly removing songs in my playlists, so this will be something I'll have to play around with.

the important issue with this that no one seems to mention for some reason is that you never get new music. with any (except for mpd) self-hosted music/video streaming service, you never get new content unless you manually add it yourself, which implies uploading it yourself manually from an external source. this isn't an issue as long as you run your service alongside Spotify, so you can have your self-hosted lossless library and add songs you like which you find on Spotify, but at that point you're not looking at a Spotify replacement the only service which combined those two was mpd, but it's rather janky to set up and the spotify integration no longer works due to libspotify being deprecated by the guys at Spotify. in theory there's a Tidal library which you can integrate within mpd, but in my experience it's been buggy at best. all other services are the essentially same thing with a different interface - read a local library and serve it through web/an app, which is not a replacement for a music streaming service

Question: I created guest user so any one can log in using the passord provided but I don't want the users to change passwords. Do any one know how to restrict users from changing password?

I won't point out that you are using your MacBook and not your usual Linux rig! =) Great job Mr. TechHut, keep these awesome videos coming!

Do they have a Roku client? That would make it simple to get on my big stereo rig.

How does this compare to Jellyfin? And the reason I use Spotify in addition to Jellyfin is for new music discovery, which it does really well.

Hi TechHut! Have you heard of beets, a media Server platform (I think)? What are your thoughts on it and will you make a tutorial for it? Thank you!

I really think the main issue is we don't have real alternatives for getting access to the content we want in the first place. The server and player are mostly irrelevant and solved technologies with virtually infinite open source options, no one is paying Spotify or Netflix for their player. Their software is inferior but it's either that or piracy if you want to hear to your favorite artists and watch your favorite series/movies. It doesn't help that buying downloadable content prices make no sense comparing to streaming subscription prices, it's a lost war.

If you're trying to switch to open source, why use Docker when Podman is an option?

This might be better in some ways, but I still have an ampache docker running. It hosts the library I use for my radio. If I knew about 'Navidrome' earlier, I might have used it instead! Ampache is fine though, so I won't switch.

Would it not be easier to just have an rpi set up streaming your music from home? And just opening a port for your access.

pros and cons vs Jellyfin?

Please does anyone has an alternative substreamer. I don't like this app because it put the media controls in a notification and doesn't use android's dedicated media player section.

bandcamp is really great for artists in comparison and you get a nice zip of music files in your preferred audio format.

This is the second greatest video of all time

is it IOS compatible, or any alternatives that are?

Wondering how can I source the music albums, I don't own any media.

I tried these self hosting but I kinda prefer putting actual files on my phone. I tried plexamp but It fix some of my music collection's metadata. also I don't use mobile wifi on outside anyway.

Could you please do a comparison video between this and Jellyfin ? RU-vidrs only seem to look at the video side of Jellyfin. Currently I use Plex for everything.

how can i send out my jellyfin to friends and family outside my network

Spotify user here since 2011. Yes there's now competition with Google and Apple shoving their music down our throats, but I still love Spotity. Especially the "enhance" function to add extra similar songs to a playlist. Now, if you want your own server, that's awesome, but then I'll need to find ways to "download" all these songs and their artworks. Ain't nobody got time for that :-)

holyshit this is good tutorial. I am using ubuntu > docker > mount synology > synolog music storage > substreamer

Great idea but I haven't been downloading music since I got spotify like way back when it came to the states. So i'm like ten years behind.

Could you use this with mobile also?

I have a lazier route, just copy my .MP3 library onto a USB drive, then let the car player sort it out. That means two copies to update, but I don't need anything to be on 'the cloud.' Your mileage will likely vary..

Also Plex getting breached right on time!

Was that Fonzworth Bentley I saw?

that beard shave makes your jaw look SHARP

add the user to the docker group, and you can run docker as normal user.

...or music that you downloaded off RU-vid :p

Would not have expected you to have Kanye West in your library lol. Welcome surprise, he makes good stuff *most* of the time.

SOULSEEKING content

I use Ibroadcast it's how Google play music used to be.

is this better than Sonic?

If I'm giving Linode $5 why not just give $10 to spotify and not have to buy any music?

Mango Day You Bee

Here's a better idea: but the movie/music you want to listen if possible so you don't depend to subscriptions.

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Pretty good performance on that linode with just 1 gig and 1 cpu.

I might just do this with my purchased music. I support a lot of artists on bandcamp but the bandcamp player is garbage. Thanks for the video. I’ll probably still stream with mainstream artists since I’m not giving the artist money or spending my time downloading.

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Linode is great and all, and maybe it's just paranoia, but I wouldn't feel completely comfortable stuffing a VPS with copyrighted content, even if it's fair use and you aren't distributing it 🤔

well i am not downloading all the songs i listen to. it is basically unsustainable. also being able to see recommendations while listening to a song is a must have feature for me.

I just buy cds and stuff not streaming

Stop using spotify just create your own server. Where I will get those songs tho?

This is only good if your time is worthless. The only benefit I see is playing content that Spotify does not have. Just use Spotify local files with a cloud provider.

Good idea but im not trying to buy 400+ licenses for 400+ songs

Erm, Spotify does a lot more than this such as provide the actual content and a way to discover it. Although its web app is a POS.

kanye

Self hosting your own music collection is frankly not much different than using an IPod back in the day and is in no way a substitute for a streaming service like Spotify. It gives you zero exposure to artists who you don't already own. I love linux and open source, but this is not even close to the same functionality.

Please tell me you have pre-IFeedBillionairesWithMyHands&SayAnythingForYTPPLsMoney Kanye…

And now people will be back to pirating.

Self hosting implies free. This is sadly not a free option

best Self-Host (at least for me) is filezilla server. easily mount on any device with any OS as "folder/drive"

hello, long time fan first time caller. big navidrome fan here, have been using it for about 2 years now the way navidrome is designed is so that it just serves you YOUR music that YOU manage. it is not supposed to write anything to your music files, only read them (thats why your music folder is mounted read-only in the docker-compose file) by that, i mean manage as in you "downloaded" your music, organised it properly into a folder structure and tagged it properly. the ID3 tags are why your music seems all scattered, you fix that by either manually tagging each and every file or you can use an app like MusicBrainz Picard, which is a tool that pulls tags from musicbrainz.org , which is an open source community maintained database that stores tags for most if not all popular artists, and a lot of the more niche ones as well. (holy compound sentence, batman!) i digest. navidrome is a great project, especially for those of us who horde data (my poison? music, *sigh*). it has user management if you want to share your music with people without messing up your listening history or likes and whatever. it has server side transcoding that is based on how you log into it (phone vs chrome on linux vs edge on windows etc) for if you wanna set different quality streams based on your device, eg high quality when youre streaming from a PC or TV at home and medium quality for when you are on slower wifi at starbucks and low for when streaming with phone data. did i mention that because its based on the Subsonic API (another amazing project, www.subsonic.org/), you can use any app that supports that API to stream! (theres a plugin for KODI, Substreamer, SonicLair, etc) in conclusion (phew!) it is a great tool that does exactly what it is designed for, and very well. a comparable but (in my opinion) even more streamlined tool is LMS (Lightweight Music Server, github.com/epoupon/lms ), also free and open source! personally i use a tool called Beets (beets.io/) which is a cli tool written in python. it also pulls data from MusicBrainz but because it is a cli tool it can be automated via cron jobs to automatically tag and organise a music folder that is regularly updated. (because you buy CDs, rip vynils and buy FLACs, right?) end rant