A personal music streaming server that works

So instead of being able to use a wide variety of clients with established providers like jellyfin or plex etc., I’d be limited to koel’s app only? Jellyfin also just works for me.

I’m not opposed to new media servers, but with this starting out freemium, and with a proprietary API, I don’t see much reason to use it.

Ah... installation "wizards"...

   Your DB driver of choice [MySQL/MariaDB]:
    [mysql     ] MySQL/MariaDB
    [pgsql     ] PostgreSQL
    [sqlsrv    ] SQL Server
    [sqlite-e2e] SQLite
   > sqlite-e2e

   Absolute path to the DB file:
   > /home/user/koel.sqlite3

     WARN  Cannot connect to the database. Let's set it up.  

   Your DB driver of choice [MySQL/MariaDB]:
    [mysql     ] MySQL/MariaDB
    [pgsql     ] PostgreSQL
    [sqlsrv    ] SQL Server
    [sqlite-e2e] SQLite

I really need something like this for video.

Basically a simple website for kids where they can select from pre-approved youtube accounts/videos or upload additional conten. Anyone building sth like this?

Why not use one of the more established options to stream music? Like plex, emby, jellyfin?

I'm seriously asking for the best solution because I'm about to return to living in the same home so I plan on bringing back my Synology NAS and digitize my music collection.

People who run this or something similar (Jellyfin, Plex, Navidrome, etc.), what do you use to easily add new music?

Do you just log into Lidarr, or are there music players that have a nicer integration for this?

Huh, demo not bad actually, and fair one-time pricing for plus version.

Although it did turn my relatively high-end laptop into the new GE hypersonic ramjet[1] and I couldn't hear the music over the fans... the visualizers were slow (wondering if it doesn't have 3d acceleration?) on Firefox / Linux. (Worked fine on Chrome.)

+1 for Jonathan Coulton though.

1 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40943253

Looks very similar to Navidrome, plus some UI polish, minus the subsonic integration that opens up to third-party mobile apps. Interesting anyway. I keep returning to Plexamp though, I don't quite like Plex "per se" but Plexamp mobile + the sonic analysis is something I miss when I don't have it.

It's still amazing there is just no all in one solution for viewing and sharing media between people. Having to hook Sonarr/radarr whatever into something to track indexers than a client then some kind of all in one interface that might not even be a media player....

Does anyone recommend any resource for downloading high quality.mp3/FLAC music that I can use put on my personal streaming service.

I know I can pirate but I really want to buy it legally in a way artists might benefit.

Places like Band camp have very small collections.

I know of 7 digital https://uk.7digital.com/

But for some reason "This store is not available for your location"

I have been using Koel for a few months on my server. It was pretty good but not great. Nowadays I have Navidrome running on a docker service, along with a samba server, so I can easily add content and use any Jellyfin client I want (Like Symfonium on Android).

Koel is an awesome product and a great base for any music streaming app or home media server. I see people complaining about the app "costing" as much as a cup of coffee at Starbucks (it can be easily compiled freely yourself https://github.com/koel/player) or how it stacks up to Jellyfin which has a very lackluster interface for music files. Koel does a great job replicating the functionality of Spotify or iTunes with your music library. It is well written, easily customizable and extensible. Nothing even comes close to Koel when it comes to the self-hosted music server category in terms of UX. It may lack some features of Ampache but it's certainly preferable to use when compared to that solution. Music players aren't extremely complicated a ground-up rebuild in this area often makes sense.

I wish I could have such app to stream music from my NAS. This is very nice though!

I wonder if anyone knows if the mobile apps can cache music for offline listening? It's the only feature that's keeping me using YouTube Music's Uploads (formerly Google Play Music).

For a personal server, I believe the most common deployment scenario would be a home PC works as a server behind a router/NAT box. However, I didn’t see they mentioned it on their website.

Is that the actual selling point? There are a number of personal music streaming servers that work. I've been using one for years.

I don't have any use for it but I like the name

It's the Indian name of a cuckoo songbird. And fun fact, it's onomatopoeic.

Whats the main advantages to plexamp? From what i can tell from the screenshots, the UI looks very clean.

Don't other personal music streaming servers work?

I definitely like the dev's stance on pricing.

Navidrome just works.

I miss jinzora.

This was one of the better apps I tried, sadly nothing beat commercial services