Open source streaming server
Tutorial – Koel
Music is great. Getting it from your own completely private streaming server is even better.
Music is a wonderful, universal heritage of humanity. These days, however, it's never really "ours," thanks to streaming services that exploit it as yet another way to profile people for profit.
Besides, no matter how big a streaming service may be, even if it did have all the music you'd like, it could never guarantee (even if it wanted to, which never happens) that it will keep music online as long as you want it. This article presents one of the easiest solutions to this issue: a personal open source audio server that you can install on your Linux computer to have your copies of all the music and podcasts you want always available with full privacy.
Koel [1] is an audio streaming server that's available in two versions, Community and Koel Plus. Neither version supports video streaming, but, besides platforms like Spotify, both can connect to video-based platforms like YouTube to download the metadata of a song. Koel Plus, which is available for a one-time fee, allows multiple users to have their own independent music collections, which they can share among themselves to build common playlists. It also supports remote storage on private servers or on cloud services like Dropbox or Amazon S3.
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