gonic

I've used Gonic[1] for music server purposes and Symfonium[2] for streaming said music for a while now, nothing but good things to say about both. The only downside is it does not do automatic media tagging like Plex, but if you ingest with something like MusicBrainz Picard[3] then it'll never be a problem. [1] https://github.com/sentriz/gonic [2] https://www.symfonium.app/ [3] https://picard.musicbrainz.org/

When listening to music, I often don't play whole albums, but string together songs that capture my current mood. In the past, I've written a tool that records my hearings and generates suggestions from my usual listening patterns[1] and used it with some scripts around mpd. This made my way of listening to music easier and worked decently, but I wished I could also sync and use this with my phone. Recently I've discovered Subsonic, a protocol for music servers and players. It caught my eye, because it supports "scrobbling" (apparently the common term for "recording hearings") and generating similar-song-lists. Pretty much exactly what I had been doing and many music players support this feature to create "instant playlists". With a little bit of hacking[2], it was easy to integrate my existing, collected hearing patterns into a Subsonic

For anyone looking for a spotify alternative, please join me in making a better, self-hosted spotify! 1.) Buy music when you can, and when you can't, pirate! 2.) Run Gonic(1)! (or whatever you want, I'm not in charge of what you do at the end of the day, but Gonic is a.) very light, and b.) a subsonic(2) server, so it's compatible with anything that supports that family of services) 2a.) How you run it is up to preference, I have a NAS that runs mine, you can also run it off something like Pikapods(3), a VPS (you know what a VPS is), or off your own desktop/laptop/raspberry pi, who cares. 3.) Download a subsonic compatible player, which is much more open to preferences, but I highly suggest Symfonium(4) 4.) Enjoy music streaming without ads, limits, or artists you don't like! (1) https://github.com/sentriz/gonic (2) https://www.subsonic.o

Not sure if S3 is a hard requirement for you. But many in the self-hosted community use Plexamp/Jellyfin. I personally really like: https://github.com/sentriz/gonic Put it behind tailscale or similar vpn and listen to your music anywhere!

I've been using https://github.com/sentriz/gonic – how does lms compare to other (open)subsonic servers?

I tried this (among a bunch of others) about a year ago and landed on Gonic[1] for the server and Supersonic[2] on PC and Amperfy[3] on mobile. Yes it's a few different tools to maintain (plus beets etc), but it's the ideal set of features etc for me. Self-hosting has been fun and I've started experimenting with local LLMs to build playlists which is helping discoverability.. or more /rediscovering/ artists that I haven't listened to in a while [1] https://github.com/sentriz/gonic/ [2] https://github.com/dweymouth/supersonic [3] https://github.com/BLeeEZ/amperfy

can this be integrated with subsonic like servers? https://github.com/navidrome/navidrome https://github.com/sentriz/gonic these have good app support so this could be nice

Ah, very interesting to read about Subsonic being used here. I was in the market for a similar setup a while ago and tried a bunch of different servers. Navidrome was clearly one of the better ones but didn't seem to support folder-based navigation, which I want to use (since most of my music is not structured as album-per-folder but rather as playlist-per-folder). Like a good HN user I ended up writing my own Subsonic compatible server [0]. It also does things mentioned in this blog post series, like automatically grab cover art and metadata from Musicbrainz/CoverArtArchive, Discogs and last.fm. I haven't officially released it yet since it's missing a few features (most notably transcoding, documentation and support for deleting files) but looks like it might be worthwhile to spend that effort. If you're feeling brave, you can compile i

maybe you could try https://github.com/sentriz/gonic (nightly build) it supports browsing by folder

Been using gonic[1] on my Raspberry Pi at home. Works brilliantly. As an aside, I'm glad I didn't bother with Funkwhale: https://funkwhale.audio/en_US/code-of-conduct/. [1]: https://github.com/sentriz/gonic

https://github.com/sentriz/gonic is a very lightweight implementation of Subsonic (so you can use any Subsonic client with it, ie. there are native and browser apps). I use it with DSub on Android. There's still https://bandcamp.com/ for buying music, but there are many artists I can no longer buy mp3's from now that Google Play Music is gone :-/

Or if you want something that can run easily on a RaspberryPi but still gives you Subsonic compatibility, try https://github.com/sentriz/gonic

hey thanks for your feedback! though it's strange that the scanner missed your artwork files. it should support lots of filetypes https://github.com/sentriz/gonic/blob/master/server/scanner/...

Other players would use images embedded in cover-arts. Gonic only works with folder.jpg. I had cover.png files which Gonic ignored, so I had to hack around things. See https://github.com/sentriz/gonic/issues/11