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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Personal music servarr with a mobile app?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, a shameless self-plug opportunity. TLDR: I’m making a Subsonic server trying to replicate a somewhat passable self-hosted Spotify/… experience.

  My current setup is a Subsonic stack: gonic as a server, Lidarr as a library organizer/downloader (it works natively with Prowlarr BTW) and Sonixd/Tempo as desktop/mobile clients. Frankly, it sucks - no discovery and almost nothing gets auto-downloaded. Even ignoring the crucial discovery part, I got tired of manually downloading albums from Bandcamp - manually tagging, manually feeding files into Lidarr, manually adding metadata to MusicBrainz so Lidarr actually works, …

  So, I’ve been working on a Subsonic-compatible server for quite a while. The basic idea is:

  • regular user libraries are already covered by various Subsonic (and other) servers, no need to reinvent this
  • we can, uuuuh, cache stuff from YouTube/Bandcamp/… to stream it via Subsonic API to leverage existing clients
  • we can fetch recommendation lists from somewhere else (ListenBrainz/…) and use the existing library or even auto-search YouTube/Bandcamp/… if the track’s missing

  Well then, what can Tapesonic already do?

  • given a YouTube/Bandcamp/maybe-more URL, download it and then two-click import it as a playlist or an album, making it listenable via most Subsonic clients (single-video “mixtapes” with timecoded chapters and playlists are supported)
  • combine your “main” library (from probably most other Subsonic servers like gonic/Navidrome/…) with it’s own so you don’t have to switch servers back and forth

  What’s broken/not implemented yet?

  • acceptable server UI; features are far more important especially considering that the goal is to use the existing clients for almost everything
  • seeking in clients; working on a fix for the past few days
  • transcoding; not a priority for now
  • auto-searching YouTube/Bandcamp/…; not a priority for now
  • ListenBrainz playlists; I have “already listened” playlists kinda working in a stash, but those are paused until seeking works; “discovery” will just work after auto-searching gets implemented

  No user documentation, half-broken, breaking changes one after another, slow progress - but hey, it doesn’t mess with your existing library and already made my life quite easier with Bandcamp albums. A docker image is available - so give it a spin if you want to and then ragequit because it sucks

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looking for a music solution⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  gonic as the streaming server, Lidarr for library management and some of the downloads, Sonixd/Tempo as desktop/mobile clients.

  Works alright for albums (downloads are a pain), probably won’t really work in your case though.

  Everything is running on a single-node k8s cluster (because infrastructure-as-code is awesome), but it’s probably overkill for most people. github.com/sibwaf/Infrastructure for reference if you’re interested (/selfhosted/charts - lidarr, gonic)

  Shameless self-plug: I’m working on a Subsonic-compatible server which wraps yt-dlp (i.e. allows downloading from YouTube/Bandcamp and then streams it). Seems like it should work for your case of handling single tracks. It’s still very much in progress (very-very slow progress) and really isn’t ready for use, but if anyone is interested in following the project: github.com/sibwaf/Tapesonic

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FOSS Deep Packet Inspection software?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, no problem.

  I did try wrapping Wireguard inside of xray, but didn’t manage to make it work. Not sure if it’s impossible, but yeah.

  xray clients can work as a system-wide VPN if you’re worried about usability. Just no communication between different machines connected to the same server (probably).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FOSS Deep Packet Inspection software?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  To be honest, I’m also not that knowledgeable about it even though I do have it running on a VPS. And can’t say I’m too knowledgeable about networking/VPNs either - I do use Wireguard which I also manage, but that’s about it.

  So, some bulletpoints instead:

  • It’s kinda a pain to set up
  • It’s default server configuration logs all requests, so you might want to disable this
  • As far as I understand, it’s more of a proxy than a VPN, so you won’t be able to make connections from one client to another
  • It mimics standard HTTPS
  • When using the “reality” protocol it successfuly mimics any website of your choosing for any unauthenticated clients by forwarding HTTPS certificates and whatnot, which protects you from active probing
  • People use it to get around the Great Firewall of China
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FOSS Deep Packet Inspection software?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Is Wireguard a requirement? If you just want to go around censorship / hide your traffic, you can try using github.com/XTLS/Xray-core