What would be the easiest self hosted way to share a music collection privately?
I am thinking of just granting guest access to the nas folder via wireguard or a simple caddy instance but also more sophisticated versions.
It would be good (but not a must) to have a search feature enabled.
Any recommendations?
I’m running a plex server on my NAS and use plexamp to stream music.
Subsonic or similar?
Navidrome is another server that works pretty well, implements the subsonic protocol ( so all the apps that can cache and stream to your mobile device work). You can have multiple logins, or just share out playlists and albums individually to non-authenticated users.
Subsonic is perfect for this. Interface is a bit… dated, but the functionality is there.
Subsonic is also a protocol (and opensubsonic) which supports many other clients, if you want. Personally my music collection is just hosted on gonic, a server-only subsonic implementation and I stream it to whatever clients I want.
But use Airsonic instead, it’s a fork that’s free in both the beer and speech sense.
There’s also Navidrome, which is a unique backend, but works with existing Subsonic clients. Check out both, see which one you like better.
I was just about to reply that I liked supporting the developer of the original code and that it wasn’t too expensive (I bought a “lifetime premium” for something like $30 USD I think) . But it seems the licensing has gotten ridiculous since then and is now a subscription. :-(
I use jellyfin
Jellyfin is ideal for privately sharing music. Plex is similar but not FOSS.
Sharing over LAN or Internet? To desktops, mobile devices? For file sync or streaming?
Over the internet for file sync. Desktop devices.
Imho easy mode is just throwing it on Plex and making sure your port is set up on your router for external access, then just sharing your music folder in Plex.
No need for a domain or anything
Plex should not be accessed externally using a port forward. Always use app.plex.tv as it prevents unauthenticated users from seeing the instance.
Then I would approach it as just regular file syncing. Syncthing is probably the most popular piece of software, though I haven’t used personally used it over the Internet.
If you don’t want to sync every file, perhaps your NAS has a native desktop file sync client? Or I’d run something basic like Filebrowser and let them download the individual files/folders they want, though it doesn’t do syncing.
There have been a few mentions of Navidrome. I find it works well for sharing at an album or even artist level. It can do playlists as well. But you must explicitly choose what to share, at which point it’s generates a unique URL and will generate a web player and zip if you enable the option to download.
You can, of course, just make user accounts and distribute credentials.
If you’re needing to offer browsable folders to easily copy, basically a filesystem-like experience, it’s probably not the best tool.
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:
Fewer Letters More Letters NAS Network-Attached Storage NAT Network Address Translation Plex Brand of media server package SSO Single Sign-On VPN Virtual Private Network
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I also use jellyfin, and I can listen to stuff along side some friends too with SyncPlay!
Does castopod work for this?
Funkwhale is pretty cool.
