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Comment by bitvoid

1 month ago

I've been using Plex (connecting via Tailscale) with their Plexamp music player.

It's been working pretty well, but I might have to give this a try to compare. Although, it's not clear from the GitHub README or the Apple App Store listing if the mobile app allows you to download music for offline listening.

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nfriedly  1 month ago

Also using Plex and Plexamp, and very happy with that combo. Curious about why talescale is needed - I'm on a static IP, but I believe Plex also provides a forwarding service (?)

I think you were talking about Blackcandy in the second paragraph, but just to be clear, Plexamp does allow downloading for offline listening.

  • WXLCKNO  1 month ago

    It's free, extremely easy (not that port forwarding is complicated) and you don't need to port forward.

    I point DNS records on my personal domain to tailscale IPs so it some subdomains can only be accessed when connected to tailscale, I can do app.mydomain.com etc without exposing anything online.

urbandw311er  1 month ago

Same here - Plexamp is working out great for self hosted music on-the-go. Was happy to contribute the small amount towards development.

gbraad  1 month ago

Pretty much the same here;

  - Cloudflare tunnel for public access
  - Tailscale for private use and sharing over WebDAV
  - Nextcloud for general file management 
  - Jellyfin for music and video streaming

Have this running in containers: https://github.com/gbraad-homelab.

Nextcloud's WebDAV has issues with filenames or at least how it works. A large amount of files in non-'standard' characters wouldn't show up, so Ampache/Subsonic wouldn't work. This is why I tried Jellyfin.