# how to set up your own streaming service

i really dislike spotify and other streaming services

a ton of reasons and also cds and bandcamp are way cooler

if you have an openbsd box or really any other linux box

you can quite quickly set up something that is good enough (tm)

this is not a beginner friendly guide, maybe i will improve once my
setup breaks again

## storage

if you do not have accessible 1 tb of storage hetzner offer their
file service (it's called storagebox) for 4.92 per month which is okay.
it works fine from germany -> amsterdam on sshfs both for flacs and
other formats

the command to mount it once you can keep stuff there using sshfs,
solene made a good article on this (keep in mind its running on port
23 there)

[solene's article](https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2022-07-23-openbsd-sshfs.html)

## software

### backend

#### syncing

` rsync -Pvr --size-only ~/Music music-host:/path/to/music/dir`

#### streaming
you can use [navidrome](https://www.navidrome.org/) which is a streaming server
with the simplest setup, you can read the documentation and set it up
your way to whatever you need

you can just throw music into music directory owned by music user and
run the service as music user

### frontend

the web frontend is good enough to use on computer

you can also use clementine/strawberry music clients if you like
normal uis

for ios devices (it is 2025 after all) Amperfy is ok client

for android devices i think substreamer is good

have a wonderful day