I don't want streaming music, I just want to stream my music

Re:I don't want streaming music, I just want to stream my music by christoph on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @08:11PM (#35462342)

Jellyfin is excellent. Swapped to it from Plex about a year ago. Haven't looked back once. I run the server on an old M1 Mac Mini, it's the first time I've felt I have my own personal Netflix. I can stream 40gb 4k HDR Atmos rips to old stereo 1080p plasmas with ancient Firesticks (on wifi) in bedrooms in my house with almost zero delay, even when fast forwarding, and getting near realtime frame previews as you skip. It's lovely software.

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Re:I don't want streaming music, I just want to stream my music by klooney on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @08:52PM (#35462652)

How old can an m1 mac mini actually be

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Re:I don't want streaming music, I just want to stream my music by christoph on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @09:08PM (#35462775)

In the UK businesses generally write computer hardware off over 3 years, or 5 years if it's a really extravagannt purchase, this little M1 is now written off from a business perspective... so... They make really great low powered, insanely fast & quiet home servers... It's a lovely time to be alive! :-)

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Re:I don't want streaming music, I just want to stream my music by unethical_ban on Thursday April 06, 2023 @12:31AM (#35464147)

3 years is pretty short, I feel like it's 5-7 here. Maybe laptops are different nowadays.

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Re:I don't want streaming music, I just want to stream my music by happymellon on Thursday April 06, 2023 @04:19AM (#35465706)

They are still £500 on eBay, compared to the Lenovo micro systems which are less than 1/2 the price for a 10th gen and doesn't have everything soldered down it doesn't seem like a great deal yet.

I'll probably be waiting another few more years before I have an M1 for my home server.

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Re:I don't want streaming music, I just want to stream my music by wanderingmind on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @10:08PM (#35463227)

have you been able to work out how to stream when you are not in LAN, like with tailscale or other overlay network?

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Re:I don't want streaming music, I just want to stream my music by nickspacek on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @10:21PM (#35463319)

Mine just works with Wireguard. I took a couple extra steps to make it convenient:

1. Public DNS entry gives jump box IP. With some http forwarding the Letsencrypt flow initiated from the internal Jellyfin server.

2. My Wireguard server (running on the jump box) runs dnsmasq and answers DNS queries for wireguard clients with the wireguard IP for the Jellyfin server.

3. DNS server on the home network gives those internal clients the local IP.

Works great now; obviously not plug and play but I had fun setting it up.

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Re:I don't want streaming music, I just want to stream my music by hanklazard on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @11:29PM (#35463801)

Tailscale + Jellyfin + Finamp (iOS Jellyfin music client) has been a game-changer when not on my LAN

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Re:I don't want streaming music, I just want to stream my music by unethical_ban on Thursday April 06, 2023 @12:32AM (#35464160)

I have a caddy proxy in front of jellyfin's web UI with HTTPS and a domain. It's publicly reachable.

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Re:I don't want streaming music, I just want to stream my music by l72 on Thursday April 06, 2023 @10:48AM (#35469043)

I have a similar setup, with an internal Jellyfin server on my lan. Every phone in my household has Wireguard that automatically connects if you are not on my wifi (which means pi.hole, nextcloud, access to cameras, and other services are also available).

It works quite well. Each family member has their own 'Library', since we all have very different taste in music, plus an 'All Library' that includes everything. We can also stream movies and tv shows I own and have ripped.

The clients are OK. We are mostly using Finamp for music playback.

I like knowing my music is always available to me, can't be removed, and is always the same version (I don't necessarily want a new remastered version)

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