Replacing Music Streaming Services with a Self-hosted Stack
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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

Full disclosure, I’m pretty new to selfhosting myself, and I haven’t written a guide like this before, but hopefully this scatterbrained writeup is enough for someone out there lmao

This is just what works for me and how I set it up. Always open to ideas for improvement as well.

  • ohshit604@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    47·
    3 days ago

    Should put a note on your blog that Lidarr’s Metadata database is being rebuilt, currently the Lidarr APi spits a bunch of 5xx errors when searching for artists/albums/etc.

    https://github.com/Lidarr/Lidarr/issues/5498

    If you currently have a library on the stable build the Lidarr team could use some help building the cache, they made this tool:

    https://github.com/DeviantEng/lidarr-cache-warmer

    It’ll search every artist in your Lidarr library so that the new database has a cache to quickly call upon.

    • nfreak@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
      14·
      3 days ago

      I think I made a note about that, but you’re right I should make it more apparent. I did use the blampe/hearring-aid build here which solves the issue for the short term, but I’ll add a clearer note to futureproof it for when the main builds are fixed.

    • FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.auEnglish
      3·
      3 days ago

      Yeah and it’s been proper fucked for months. I set up anew server on my Mac mini M4 months ago and every now and then I spin up lidarr again to see if it is fixed and nope, won’t recognise a single album in my entire collection and can’t even manually add an artist.

      Headphones is pretty terrible and slow, but it has the benefit of working.