DITCH Spotify and Self-Host your Streaming!

In this video we will be doing the intial steps to get our very own Navidrome server set up. This is a personal streaming service that can be used to stream your music library to nearly all your devices!

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[arto-gn]

Reading comments one simple fact that lots of people seem to forget to mention but very important for people watching these sort of videos. That fact is that there is value in not supporting companies like Spotify and many prefer to look for alternatives, even when they are not convenient or cheaper. I’ll leave it there since it’s worth mentioning.

[joelchrono]

Just for those interested, Navidrome is focused on security and only has read permissions to the file, so you will have to edit the metadata of the files directly, since you can't edit them from the web interface nor app clients. In fact, most of the things can't be edited, not even add artist info and stuff like that. It would be good if they added that but the devs are pretty focused on security more than features

[vanxp]

Thanks for the video. I am surprised on how many really good, useful application can be run on docker these days. Just a comment base on the steps outlined in the video. If you add group "docker" to your user, there's no need to use "sudo" when execute either "docker" or "docker-compose", Just be sure to manually create the docker volume folders using your user before creating the containers.

[suscactus]

the important issue with this that no one seems to mention for some reason is that you never get new music. with any (except for mpd) self-hosted music/video streaming service, you never get new content unless you manually add it yourself, which implies uploading it yourself manually from an external source. this isn't an issue as long as you run your service alongside Spotify, so you can have your self-hosted lossless library and add songs you like which you find on Spotify, but at that point you're not looking at a Spotify replacement

the only service which combined those two was mpd, but it's rather janky to set up and the spotify integration no longer works due to libspotify being deprecated by the guys at Spotify. in theory there's a Tidal library which you can integrate within mpd, but in my experience it's been buggy at best. all other services are the essentially same thing with a different interface - read a local library and serve it through web/an app, which is not a replacement for a music streaming service

[CiberBago]

Yep. I installed navidrome a few months ago on my raspberry pi after searching for a solution for quite a long time, after they shutdown google play music. Right now my setup is:

Navidrome and deemix downloader on RPI > Backup to google drive folder every day > Syncing with my phone every hour automatically > Music app of your choice

Before that I did something similar, downloading songs on my pc, uploading them to google drive and then syncing to my phone, but I didn't have the same library on my phone and PC/Browser and no simple way of listening music on different pc (work office pc) without downloading the files. So navidrome is a godsent.

[alpacamale]

I actually did this with foobar years before I started using spotify. with a foobar plugin, fooupnp I think and an app that was able to access my ip I simply shared all my music and when I wanted something I didn't have I sent a torrent with those files to my utorrent web client and after 5 minutes I had the music I wanted streamed from my computer. But organizing all this became tedious and I am not really that much into music now so I stopped using it. This is for nerds that still download flacs. I used to be one of those.

[michaellacock]

I'm sick of SoundCloud randomly removing songs in my playlists, so this will be something I'll have to play around with.

[MegaManNeo]

Navidrome is freaking awesome and so much less intensive on the CPU as well as faster as Airsonic or any of the other Subsonic variants.
I have it running for a couple of months now after seeing it in another video - I believe it was one of Wendell's - and don't want to miss it anymore.
Runs fine off a Pi 2 even which is very handy now that electricity prices keep rising.
Highly recommended!

[HowToLinux]

Thank you, was searching for something like this for longer.

[bmilreu]

I really think the main issue is we don't have real alternatives for getting access to the content we want in the first place.
The server and player are mostly irrelevant and solved technologies with virtually infinite open source options, no one is paying Spotify or Netflix for their player.

Their software is inferior but it's either that or piracy if you want to hear to your favorite artists and watch your favorite series/movies. It doesn't help that buying downloadable content prices make no sense comparing to streaming subscription prices, it's a lost war.

[KENTOSI]

Spotify user here since 2011. Yes there's now competition with Google and Apple shoving their music down our throats, but I still love Spotity. Especially the "enhance" function to add extra similar songs to a playlist.
Now, if you want your own server, that's awesome, but then I'll need to find ways to "download" all these songs and their artworks. Ain't nobody got time for that :-)

[lucycoleclough]

bandcamp is really great for artists in comparison and you get a nice zip of music files in your preferred audio format.

[PizzaLovingNerd]

This is the second greatest video of all time

[DadiWili]

quick question, in regards to new media you have not bought yet, where are you buying your music from?

[markloughtonUK]

Could you please do a comparison video between this and Jellyfin ? YouTubers only seem to look at the video side of Jellyfin. Currently I use Plex for everything.

[Aorce]

I won't point out that you are using your MacBook and not your usual Linux rig! =)

Great job Mr. TechHut, keep these awesome videos coming!

[jeroenb]

This might be better in some ways, but I still have an ampache docker running. It hosts the library I use for my radio. If I knew about 'Navidrome' earlier, I might have used it instead! Ampache is fine though, so I won't switch.

[dibyajyotisarkar]

Sir I have installed fedora 36 workstation and it's been 2 days now and I'm facing an issue for a while, with the wireless network. Everytime I try to open browser or update my system or open YouTube or suffer through internet I got a really slow network speed I have a fast broadband and a try a lot of ways to fix that problem but the problem wasn't to solve. Seems to be a driver problem
kindly make a video to fix that problem that would help me out a lot

[vimanaboy]

How does this compare to Jellyfin? And the reason I use Spotify in addition to Jellyfin is for new music discovery, which it does really well.

[-felt]

Would it not be easier to just have an rpi set up streaming your music from home? And just opening a port for your access.