Quick and easy way to replace Google Music (RIP) / YouTube Music / Apple Music / Spottily

You might be the same as me, who doesn't find modern music entertaining and who only listens to music of bands/compositors I already know. 

You might have some other motives - like you don't want to pay for streaming services, if you already own all the music you listen and the only service you want is to be able to listen that from your smartphone without actually storing all these gigabytes of songs on your phone.

I have two awesome applications for you today.

Jellyfin

https://jellyfin.org/

Jellyfin is an open source media server with optional web interface and lots of clients you can install to your iOS / Android phone. Fuck the Plex. Fuck the proprietary shit.

In a nutshell it works like this:

* you install Jellyfin on your home computer / server / SBC (like Orange Pi 4 LTS) 

* you create one or multiple accounts in there - it's simply username + password

* you configure it to tell where all your music / video is, just feed it with your local folders with music and movies you have

* it indexes all that, so you can easily find songs by titles / authors / album names later on

* you can optionally install a web interface, so you'll be able to use it on any other computer without installing a client
* you can also install a client to your mobile phone / some other computer. There're lots of platforms supported - https://jellyfin.org/downloads/clients 

If your Jellyfin server is not in the same network as your clients - like you want to hear your music / watch videos on your phone, when it's not in your home network, you can use one of the methods described here - https://orange-pi-4-lts.blogspot.com/2022/08/how-to-access-your-home-server-if-its.html

Nuclear

https://nuclear.js.org/

Amazing app, even though it is an Electron app. Unlike the Jellyfin, it doesn't give you any streaming options - it's just a standalone music player, but what it does, it allows you to listen to lots of music freely available on various sources like YouTube, Soundcloud, Bandcamp - whatever.

It has a nice UI and what is most important, a huge catalog of artists. And you can download everything you want, isn't that great?