Hi Selfhosted,
I am looking for the best solution to replace spotify for at home and out of the house music.
I already have a large music library and run moOde for multiroom audio and use spotify connect to cast to it.
Is my best option to set up an MPD server and wireguard vpn to use it on the go? Are there other options? What would you recommend?
Navidrome over wireguard, and music library in folders and proper tagging trough beets and picard. using subsonic as a client for it. tried plex and plexamp but I’m moving away from them.
Plex w/ plexamp Jellyfin w/finamp
Thats what I would go with but theres tons of options here as well
https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted#media-streaming---audio-streaming
Very gold alternative for plexamp is symphonium
People will recommend Navidrome- but if you’re like me then your music collection is organized by folders and not metadata. Navidrome does not and will never (developer said as much) support folder-based browsing.
I recommend using Gonic https://github.com/sentriz/gonic and then a compatible Subsonic client. Gonic has been the simplest and smoothest out-of-house music streaming experience for me.
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I think you’re on the right track with Wireguard.
I’m also running Jellyfin, but mostly Navidrome for music. I’ve been pretty satisfied with the latter.
Consuming music outside the house has been a significant issue. I mostly tried to go the offline route: download some music to play while you’re out of the house … and on Android the experience has been overall very poor. My least worst experience was with Substreamer as a client, but still not anywhere near good.
Where I’m at today is with always-on VPN through Wireguard and the experience is significantly better than any other solution I’ve tried before.
It’s been years I haven’t played with
mpd, so I can’t comment on that.Navidrome with Substreamer on mobile for auto-generated recommendations based on already played music works great for me.
+1 for navidrome.
I’m also using that and have it exposed to the web using a cloudflare tunnel. What I didn’t like in the beginning but really appreciate now is that the service itself doesn’t have a lot of permissions and cannot delete files or change their metadata. I’m hosting it in a docker container and everything except the config file is mounted read-only.
I’m not sure how relevant that is but it gives me more peace of mind exposing it publicly.
Thay sounds potentially better than having to vpn in to use it.
How are you liking navidrome?
Performance is good and streaming works well. Not a fan of the webinterface personally but there are client programs available for all platforms since navidrome exposes the subsonic api.
Personally I use sonix on windows and linux as well as symfonium (paid but really great app) on android.
The only thing I am missing from it is better user management so that I can restrict specific users from accessing parts of my library.
Regarding access from outside my network I specifically wanted to avoid needing to be connected to a VPN so that’s why I use a cloudflare tunnel. Since my upload rate is not very good I have a Pi-Hole DNS server at home so that queries to my domain while in the home network don’t need to leave my network.
Another very fast and folder based system would be mStream: https://mstream.io/
It works very well, also good mobile apps (Android + iOS)
Dont know about the multiroom thing but Navidrome is pretty solid
It definitely has to be Jellyfin (server) + Finamp (client) + tailscale (mesh VPN)
Symphonium is another good mobile client.
