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.

  • xavierAEnglish
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    7 days ago

    Yes, you can install MPD on the Linux Desktop, and them use a MPD client from your Android phone to control It. I have a Raspberry pi with moode installed and conected to my sound system. Moode uses MPD, so I can connect to it, browse the library, play a song and control volumen with my android phone and MPDdroid application. You can install MPD on a Linux pc as a service and do the same