What do you all use for music vidoes? reddit / selfhosted ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Silencer306 · 2023-11-10 01:42 I'm using Navidrome for my music, but what is the best way to host music videos? Just treat them as videos as stream through plex or similar app? Or is there a music player that supports music videos? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- thekrautboy · 2023-11-10 01:44 Nothing. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Significant-Neat7754 · 2023-11-10 02:30 I don't see the point in self hosting music, let alone music videos. YouTube music/Spotify is just way better and reasonably priced. With self hosting, music discovery is completely absent. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Silencer306 · 2023-11-10 02:39 I dont care about the discovery function, i got a bunch of songs I listen on repeat and some in a specific language, which btw is not always available on the music services. Plus I had been using apple music since many years but recently took a break and resubscribed after a few months. All of my playlists gone, just poof. Years of making them. Now I just wanna host it on my server and never worry about it again. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Significant-Neat7754 · 2023-11-10 02:45 I see what you mean. I think for most people, YouTube premium is a mandatory subscription these days. And you get YouTube music for free with that. With background play on YouTube itself, even the rarest of music is now available to everyone. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- sturgeon01 · 2023-11-10 03:35 Having both is nice, plenty of music that's not available on YouTube or streaming services. The audio quality/bitrate on those platforms is also generally lower than what you'll get from a CD or a legally obtained .FLAC file. But yeah, until someone trains a decent music discovery algorithm for self-hosting, I don't think I'll be fully switching over. Not even sure it's possible without access to their enormous datasets gathered from millions of subscribers. What's the alternative, internet comments? I don't want my music collection curated by Redditors. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- mpopgun · 2023-11-10 03:43 Plex is the only solution I know of. There's some documentation out there where people have gotten fancy with their music videos in Plex and how it's organized. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- idkwhatimdoing069 · 2023-11-10 03:45 I’m with a lot of other ppl here in this thread. I tried self-hosting music and yeah, music discovery was obsolete and that alone drove me back to Spotify. I self-host 80% of my daily driving services but music is 1 thing I just don’t want to self-host. CarPlay integrations of FOSS makes it hard to make the jump to begin with. Though this really doesn’t help OP but this is just my take on it. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- sturgeon01 · 2023-11-10 03:57 I don't host music videos, but if I did I'd just put them on my Plex/Jellyfin server. Both services deliver video of any codec to any device reliably, which can't be said for all self-hosted apps. I also quite like both Navidrome and Plexamp and don't see a good reason to switch. If I had a huge music video library that needed organization by artist and genre, then maybe I'd try Ampache. It looks a bit basic, but does offer support for music videos alongside your main music library. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Top_Rule_7301 · 2023-11-10 04:00 I don't have music videos, but if I did, I'd add them to my jellyfin ---------------------------------------------------------------------- darvs7 · 2023-11-10 04:09 I use KODI as a music video player. I manually fill XML .nfo files with the information for each music video. Then I have KODI rescan the music video directory and the new ones are added to the library. It might sound like a lot of manual work but it only takes a few seconds per song. Considering you say you listen to the same songs a lot, it might not be a problem for you. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- puppetjazz · 2023-11-10 04:14 Jellyfin ---------------------------------------------------------------------- awpenheimer7274 · 2023-11-10 04:18 I keep music videos! I use jellyfin, content type: Music Videos. Works really well and I've also discovered that if you're listening to a audio file that has the music video available, it shows a suggestion below the playlist ---------------------------------------------------------------------- verylittlegravitaas · 2023-11-10 04:57 YouTube premium is probs your best bet. Never heard of anyone publishing music videos. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- dinosaurdynasty · 2023-11-10 05:33 VLC lol, though I rarely actually play them. I do download music videos I like though, they have a tendency to disappear. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Kelgarath · 2023-11-10 06:02 I connected Last.fm to my jellyfin and I'm pretty happy. Manual but functional ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -SHINSTER007 · 2023-11-10 07:04 I listen to lossless so that automatically rules YouTube and Spotify out. With new pipe+sponsor block on Android and smart tube on Android tv there is no reason to pay for YT premium especially with the war they're waging on ad blockers ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -SHINSTER007 · 2023-11-10 07:06 Last.fm is best for this type of discovery ---------------------------------------------------------------------- therealSoasa · 2023-11-10 07:43 The point of self hosting music or music videos is um ... Self hosting. Music concerts , live shows etc are all catalogued via IMDb and the likes so there's no extra effort using something like jfin or plex,Kodi,xbmc. As for music videos, which are on average 2-3 minutes now days , why be subjected to streaming services like YouTube who interrupt your listening experience several times during that one song to watch ads or even worse , be forced to listen to another completely different genre of music as an advert when all you want to do is enjoy the video from beginning to end. I'm sure you have noticed this ,even iTunes refuses to host certain artists music - this is just a big fat L in my eyes. I don't need that level of censorship, royalties nonsense creeping into my music library thank you very much. AI will soon be in every player to bring you artist discovery. that will improve over time , but there are some that do offer this in a ways , aka music bee with their similar artists function ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Significant-Neat7754 · 2023-11-10 07:49 Thanks for explaining. I totally understand. I pay for YouTube Premium, because at this point, it's almost feels like a public utility, similar to Wikipedia. The internet would be a far poorer place if YouTube were to shut down. I get it though. I have Jellyfin installed already and it would make sense to at least explore self hosted music solutions. Is Jellyfin the popular solution for self-hosted music? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- GamerXP27 · 2023-11-10 09:02 dont really selfhosting but YT + Ublock is my way ---------------------------------------------------------------------- espero · 2023-11-10 09:49 Is there an archive of all jag9war rips from VIVA and the likes? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- violet-crayola · 2023-11-10 10:29 I dont care about those. Dont watch them dont use them dont collect them. Might watch it once every blue moon on youtube with revanced ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Morkai · 2023-11-10 12:18 Yeah I just have a Plex collection and rip things off youtube with "youtube-dl-material" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- richiarrrdo · 2023-11-10 12:21 I use Plex to host music - and Plexamp is my carplay music streaming service. Its awesome ---------------------------------------------------------------------- FrankMagecaster · 2023-11-10 13:55 Check out ytdl-sub for downloading and formatting music videos: https://github.com/jmbannon/ytdl-sub https://github.com/jmbannon/ytdl- sub/blob/master/examples/music_video_subscriptions.yaml ---------------------------------------------------------------------- winston198451 · 2023-11-10 14:07 I get music videos from YouTube and host them on Plex. If you are looking to receive new content on the regular, you could leverage yt- dlp on a Linux machine to download new content from your favorite YT channels such as Vevo. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- tech2but1 · 2023-11-10 19:34 > The internet would be a far poorer place if YouTube were to shut down. No it wouldn't, it would allow the YouTube alternatives to thrive rather than everyone automatically be driven to the ad ridden pile of shit that YouTube has become. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- xantheybelmont · 2023-11-10 22:14 I have a pretty extensive MTv in the 90s collection including some full recordings of hours worth of broadcast. I use TubeArchivist to grab YouTube stuff and a lot comes from Archive.org. I just let JellyFin handle playback and metadata when it can, otherwise I manually edit it the way I want it. Has served (pun intended) me well.