In the past i’ve tried pretty much everything. I’m rarely outside of my own LAN but in times i was i just set up an encrypted VPN server on my router itself, which is a normal Asus AC-1900P running AsusWRT Merlin, to get into my LAN that way. It’s always just worked for me from any device I have that would need to consume the media i have. Music, annoyingly, usually goes to the horribly inefficient ALAC format but i’ll transcode it to optimfrog or ape for devices that can use it, flac as a compatibility fallback. I ingest my media by transcoding movies / tv shows to X265 using a custom bit of settings on my Windows PC using StaxRIP and manually converting any surround sound audio to stereo using Resolve and then exporting that to WAV and transcoding that to AAC using Apple’s AAC encoder using dBPowerAMP. I listen to music on the Mac Mini just using Music and i have all my music local on this computer in a shared folder (In ALAC format). I mainly watch media on the Mac Mini using the video playing app IINA or in Edge. I’ll talk about what I do in terms of media, what i’ve tried in the past and what i’ve ruled out completely along with one thing that i wish was more useful but i see the potential of.ġ Windows 11 desktop with every drive shared over the networkġ M1 Mac Mini connected to my 4K TV with 2 external drives shared over the networkġ Google Pixel 5 that uses a file manager app to access the shares on both of these computers On the other hand, the NextCloud Android app can auto-upload your photos as you take them, and index them with a file name suffix, and by year and month. Loose permissions in your NextCloud data folder, but then NextCloud doesn’t know when you’ve written/modified files, and also, the problem of loose permissions.Make an SMB share, which is annoying, because they can only be top level in NextCloud, and only get refreshed/indexed when the share is accessed through the GUI (so for Music, the Music app won’t pull in new music until you navigate to the SMB share, if you’re using SMB).Mount data with WebDAV, which not all 3rd party services can do. You basically have 3 options if you want a 3rd party service to be able to access your NextCloud data: One problem with NextCloud is it’s hard to get data in and out of. You could set it up with cron, but for some reason cron in docker is a nightmare that still hasn’t been solved yet.Īnyways, all of that is far too complex when you could just use the built-in NextCloud Music app, which imports music automatically into your library, and gives you a SubSonic and Ampache server which works just fine with the multitude of clients.įor pictures, there’s some promising movement in NextCloud but nothing quite like Google Photos yet where you can search by object/person etc and get relevant results. There is an option to “import in place” but it’s not at all convenient, and requires executing commands inside the docker container on a regular basis. So if you want to have an SMB share that you dump music into or keep raw tracks around, you wind up duplicating tracks. The downside to Funkwhale is, you need to “import” tracks to it. It’s federated, easy to share your library with friends, and supports SubSonic. If you want something standalone, Funkwhale is a really pretty option. (Kodi + Jellyfin, for starters).įor Music, SubSonic is the only way to go, because of the abundance of SubSonic clients. Which means if you want to transcode local media from a centralized source, you need a more elaborate setup. The downside is, you have to host it at the client. Also other, slightly more sailing around on the wave services available as well if so inclined. Way more flexible, services for Netflix, Prime, FloatPlane, etc.
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