🎶 Zero Knowledge Music Player — Storage

In the last article I have covered why I don’t like online music streaming services. If you didn’t read it, my main points are that:

• It is risky to keep your playlists there
• You can’t control your music experience
• You can’t move to other service provider easily
• The experience is the bare minimum
• One day you can enjoy a feature, and the other not
• You can’t improve your experience

As you can see, there are things that I don’t like about online music streaming services. But I like one thing! I like that you can listen to your music from everywhere.

I did research to see if it is possible to set up your own music streaming server. My initial aim was to look for a Raspberry Pi or Arduino solution. It seemed like being able to play music from these devices would be something already covered by dozens of ready-to-use solutions. To my surprise it occurred it is not the case.

There seem to be some solutions, and some are paid. But I feel that there is no ready-to-use solution. Everywhere I was looking to, it involved heavy console operations. The documentation is sparse, with a little chance for support and a success. And even if you did it, you still have to figure out a bunch of other things like, how to expose the device to the world, how to maintain the whole stack. So instead of listening to the music, you’d just become a Linux administrator…