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Selfhosted alternative to Spotify (buddyverse.one)

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I'm currently using @[email protected] for my music collection after downloading over 2.5k songs from YouTube Music (Premium). While it works fine for most things, I'm looking for a better alternative. My key requirement is to read files from a mounted WebDAV folder (NextCloud Folder).

The Subsonic API in NextCloud Music works fine, and I've had no issues streaming through clients like Symfonium and Subtract. However, I want to eliminate the 5-10 second buffering issue I experience on mobile. When I tried @[email protected], my NextCloud AIO instance became unresponsive after about 30 minutes (happened twice, not sure why).

I also tried Navidrome, but I didn't like how it organizes music—it only recognizes album artists, which doesn’t work for me since I don’t have albums. I downloaded the songs in Playlists using Seal.

Ideally, I’m looking for a solution that streams high-quality music instantly, like Spotify or YouTube Music. If possible, I'd prefer tweaking my Nginx config to resolve the buffering issue rather than setting up new software. What alternatives do you guys use for fast, high-quality music playback with WebDAV support?

Edit: Forgot to mention, the buffering issue only occurs when I use a Subsonic or Ampache client with NC Music. The web version works very smoothly.

Edit: The issue with Nextcloud Music was occurring because of rate limiting.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

If you want pure streaming DAAP using OwnTone is a good alternative https://owntone.github.io/owntone-server/

Personally I use gonic with the Subsonic API, and Ultrasonic on Android. I haven't noticed any buffering lag, but it does buffer and cache aggressively. For mobile connections I see that as a big plus since it'll continue to play even if I loose signal for a while.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Lose. "Loose" is for morals and what Monty Burns does to the hounds with bees in their mouth.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Personally I use gonic with the Subsonic API, and Ultrasonic on Android.

Gonic is a super lightweight subsonic API server with a very basic static stats "dashboard". As so, it's great for lower end devices. Only problem is that it sometimes fails to pick up the album art is some cases, if that don't disturb you, then it's great.

Airsonic (abandonedware) is the best subsonic server in my option. It displays all album arts correctly and is folder based which works much better than Navidrome's Id tag reader, which is a dumpster fire.

Airsonic is on the heavier side on ram usage, around 1GB. Can probably run just fine on 500mb. Probably around what Jellyfin uses.

Ultrasonic is a great android app. It is just not updated for quite some time now.

I'm also running Jellyfin and I'll experiment with Finamp. Let's see if it takes the number one spot from Ultrasonic :)

Edit: Ultrasonic's strong point is also the caching of music for offline listening. Not sure if Finamp has the capability.

Edit2: Yes, it can cache music.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

There's a ton of android clients Subtracks is nice too! Ultrasonic might not get regular updates, but it's already very complete so there's not much need.

I haven't had much issues with gonic and album art, I guess YMMV

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

I like Navidrome for the server and substreamer for the app.