looking for a self-hosted server accessible from android

xandris · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 24 Jan 2005 Posts: 113

hi all,

looking through editorials like this list on alternativeto leaves me a bit bewildered. there are a lot of links, very few ebuilds, and too much marketing speak. ultimately, i'd like to buy a domain name, run a server on a passively-cooled pc, and be able to search through and stream my very modest (28GB) music collection wherever i have an internet connection on my android phone. i know someone here has achieved this, so i would really appreciate some advice! i was born stupid, so my search skills have failed me here; even just pointing me to the right thread would help. tyvm genchu users

Banana · Veteran Joined: 21 May 2004 Posts: 1391 Location: Germany

If you plan to run the service of your own internet connection, make sure you have the required hardware, power and connection plans (upload and max. data)
If you want to rent a server online, have a look what service provides are popular in your country. In the most cases they provide a service which includes a custom domain main. Validate that your plan does have enough data transfare rate each month.

on the software side there are:
https://github.com/IrosTheBeggar/mStream
https://airsonic.github.io/
https://mopidy.com/
https://www.linuxlinks.com/musicservers/
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NeddySeagoon · Posted: Mon Apr 05, 2021 8:15 am Post subject:

xandris,

You need to divide your question into two parts. The server part and the mobile phone part.
The receipt of streams on your devices then goes away. There are lots of android apps for that.

The server part has answers of varying degrees of cost and complexity. You need to think about thin a bit more.
You want a real whole server in a datacentre you have root access and its all yours, as long as you pay the rent.
You want a virtual server (Virtual Private Server) in a datacentre you have root access and its all yours, as long as you pay the rent.
Its like a real server but its physically a piece of a real server. This is usually smaller and lower cost. Low end offerings are too small to run Gentoo on and probably have a lot less than the 30G HDD space you need to store your music collection.
AWS even has a free tier.

You want to reat a web application, so the install is all done for you, you upload your music and off you go.

Lastly, you are going to do it all from a Raspberry Pi, or something similar using your home broadband connection.
Gentoo can do any or all of the above.

You don't need a domain name or a fixed IP to do it yourself. You use a service like no-ip to make your home dynamic IP appear to be static.
You do require a public IP though.

I've done the VPS and whole server approach. I moved when I realised I could get a whole server for the same price as my VPS.
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C5ace · Posted: Mon Apr 05, 2021 10:01 am Post subject:

I run a private mail, web, dns for local network, ftp servers.

Hardware is a old laptop with a 500GB hard drive, 4GB RAM and a build in battery as UPS running Gentoo Xfce with VirtualBox.

My ISP provides me with a static ip address and PTR record for reverse DNS lockup by mail servers.

Software used is Debian and ISPconfig (ispconfig.org) running in VirtualBox and can be moved to any PC or Laptop on my home LAN. Installation, configuration and maintenance is a piece of cake.

Don't know about streaming music. Can upload a movie. place a link on my webpage and my sister can watch the movie on her Android phone or PC. She just starts her webbrowser and clicks on the link and watches the movie.
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paluszak · Posted: Thu Apr 22, 2021 3:18 pm Post subject:

I run jellyfin (https://jellyfin.org/) on my server at home. The android client is pretty decent, it does a good job with caching so when I'm driving and I hit a spot with poor coverage there are usually no glitches. It has some options to recode music and video on demand and for that you need a decent machine, especially if you recode FullHD or higher resolutions, but save recoding it's rather resource friendly.

It's fairly easy to set up and maintenance overhead is nil - once you point it to the right media directories it's practically maintenance free.