AGagrue·Nov 5, 2019
Noticed a bunch of these projects recently, great to see
https://funkwhale.audio/en_US/
https://github.com/epoupon/lms
https://github.com/aidewoode/black_candy
In Show HN: MStream – the easiest music streaming serverepoupon
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lms
Lightweight Music Server. Access your self-hosted music using a web interface.
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Lightweight Music Server. Access your self-hosted music using a web interface.
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5 sourcesIt's a mish-mash. A bunch of VMs running on ProxMox, Wireguard is the link from the outside world, QNAP NAS for document storage and running SyncThing server for phone photos and videos backup, a couple of Windows VM's we RDP into for banking and centralised documents and spreadsheets. Also PiHole running on a VM so my 'roaming' browsing is nice and clean. Also, although off-topic-ish, ZoneMinder and LMS (lightweight music server - which the author linked to in comments a week ago or so: https://github.com/epoupon/lms) VMs accessible via the VPN.
Nothing particularly "integrated" like Sandstorm or NextCloud, but I haven't had the existential need for that level of accessibility.
The QNAP NAS (like Synology) has personal cloud apps, but I don't tend to like doing things the easy way. Going down that path also locks services into a part
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icular hardware dependency. VMs are easily backed up and restorable to ProxMox running on new / different hardware if necessary.
I eat my own food:
https://github.com/epoupon/lms for music
https://github.com/epoupon/fileshelter to share files
Eveything is packaged on debian buster (amd64 and armhf) and run behind a reverse proxy.
In Ask HN: What do you self-host?Thanks for you feedback!
About the software license, the web framework used (wt) is using the GPL license. So unfortunately I have to stick with it since I include/link with it. It is likely not a problem for SaaS though.
- ncmpcpp-like frontend: what do you have in mind actually? I am not sure since the goal here is to play the music on the device from which you access to the server.
- directory-based navigation: well I think that is a matter of taste. Personally I find the navigation directory based very restrictive. It does not scale well on a large collection and after all, it is just a fixed view of what you can offer using tag based browsing.
Most people use a genre/artist/album layout, but using tags you could easily achieve the same, and go even further and do whatever you want: genre/decade/artist/album, mood/album, genre/mood/ar
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tist, etc.
Honestly, I would rather encourage people to properly tag their files rather than spending time on implementing a clunky directory based navigation.
- Any info on the recommendation engine? How does it work?
Low-level Data is fetched from AcousticBrainz. See an exemple here for a random song: https://acousticbrainz.org/e73f3d92-4e9f-4db4-943a-41978d9db...
Some features are extracted for each track (the exact list is here: https://github.com/epoupon/lms/blob/develop/src/database/Sim...) and all these features are used together to classify the tracks. You can find details here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-organizing_map .
Once it is done, you get a map with all your tracks in it, and using the underlying SOM you can determine the neighbourhood of a given track.
The recommendation engine uses this map. For example, if you want albums that are similar to a particular one, you look for the tracks of the album in the map and you retreive the albums of the tracks that are close to them.
- Does musicbrainzId support include id3 tagging? id3 is a tag format used mainly in MP3. LMS reads all the tags using taglib. Therefore it can extract the tags (id3 or whatever) it needs internally (musicbrainz ids, artist, albumartist, date, etc.) as well as custom tags the administrator want too (
albummood, mood, albumgenre, grouping, etc.)
Hope that helps!
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