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Replacing Spotify (jlai.lu)

submitted 2 days ago by [email protected] to c/selfhosted

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Hello everyone I've been looking for a solution to replace Spotify, for me and my family. I already self-host some services, such as Jellyfin and Sonarr/Radarr For music however, my actual setup is the following :

synchronize my music folder on my phone with my NAS
download on the phone or on my computer However, I struggle with finding new music and having an easy way to add music.

From what I've read, Bandcamp could let me buy some music and add it to my collection (however all artists aren't on bandcamp) There also seem to be a consensus around Navidrome for a music server.

But how can I set it up so that each member of my family has a separate account (with different musics in it), still discover new songs and easily add them? I've looked into Lidarr (not a lot I have to admit) but it seems like it's mainly for downloading full albums, more than just songs. Is that the case?

TLDR: What self-hostable services can I use to replace Spotify, so that each member of my family has its own instance, recommendations and downloads?

Thank you in advance and sorry for my English

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Thank you for your feedback, I was starting to think of something like that but figured it would break too much if it isn't updated

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

I think its possible to do, I just gave up too soon. To get approval from my wife it has to be better than Spotify, and even if I got it to work, it just won't ever be better so I gave up for now.

Pretty much the only way I'll be able to replace it is if it enshittifies a lot more. Like certain record labels dropping out or something along those lines. She wants to use 1 single app for all her music and podcasts and at the moment, that can't be done well. Spotify has to do something dumb to Nerf its value proposition.