Set the Music Free
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In the last few days I have learned how to very easily access all my digital music files remotely. My personal music streaming service. It’s great. I am very happy.
It’s not the first time I’ve tinkered about with something like this. A few years ago I ran a NextcloudPi instance with a couple of HDDs connected to it. There was a lot of faffing about to set it up. When it worked it worked. Problem was from time to time it would stop working and need more time faffing about to get it running again. I stuck with it for 6 -12 months before getting fed up with trouble shooting failures and giving up on it. It was most likely down to my own ineptitude.
Fast forward to now and things have been much much easier. A Navidrome instance hosted on PikaPod. All my music files easily synced using rclone. 500GB storage, 1 CPU and 2GB ram is coming in at about £7.00 a month.
I have an old laptop I could use as a server to host Navidrome myself. I’m not inclined to spend the time wrestling with Virgin Media router settings and setting up a static IP. PikaPod share revenue with the developers of apps they host. Right now it seems like a good and easy way to make best use of Navidrome and lend my support.
I’ve been rinsing out the tunes over the last few days on my second lap top via Subsonic settings in the Strawberry Music Player, on my mobile when I’m out and about and I’m sharing my music library with spouse. We’re loving it!