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Cake day: January 24th, 2024
  • LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.comtoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•Self-hosting is having a moment. Ethan Sholly knows why.English
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    2 months ago

    Truly awesome that this hobby is getting coverage! I’m very very lazy when it comes to self-hosting, by far my largest project was moving off Spotify and archiving all my playlists.

    Rotating 3 API keys for spotdl and a YTP free trial for that sweet sweet 256kbps AAC then Musicbrainz Picard to label correctly all the music (automatic was nearly almost always wrong), then automating rebuilding the m3u8 playlists followed by the insane work of correcting all the little imperfections. Must’ve taken me like 2-3 weeks of just working on it most of the day.

    But the result? A proper offline music library with all my main playlists with each song at the proper position and order in my playlists with the correct (Spotify) metadata using correct versions of the songs in at least 256kbps AAC (and many cases FLAC and where available non-vinyl hi-res).

    Tossed on an old dell workstation I got for £50. Hosting navidrome where my JF, Qbittorrent-nox and Immich live. Using symfonium on my phone. Can access remotely via OpenVPN. Couldn’t be happier.

  • LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.comtoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•How do I host Jellyfin in the most secure manner possible?English
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    3 months ago

    If you’re running externally, use a cloudflare tunnel.

    No ports exposed = no attack surface. This is 99% of security.

    HTTPS is provided by CF although only secures comms between your devices to CF, not CF to your Pi, meaning CF can see clear text technically.

    If that’s not good enough then use a VPN server like PiVPN and put it on your pi and OpenVPN on your devices. *This has nothing to do with paid VPN Client subscriptions like Tunnelbear or Proton or whatever. *

    You will be running a VPN server on your pi to which you will connect from your devices on which you want to watch JF by downloading a device profile to your devices and opening it in the OpenVPN app.

    You do not need to pay for anything at all anywhere ever (other than something for DDNS and a domain name), use a strong password and make sure your JF is updated if there’s any CVE. Expose nothing else to the internet.

    You don’t even need HTTPS at that point or any certs, a VPN will encrypt your traffic anyway. The only cleartext you’ll have is between your VPN and your JF, and if both are on the pi then the only MITM vector is literally inside your Pi which is unlikely to have any issues.

  • LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.comtoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•Plex is locking remote streaming behind a subscription in AprilEnglish
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    4 months ago

    You can just download the episodes though? Like right in Jellyfin:

    Because yes, you can just copy files from your NAS to your phone’s internal storage (assuming you don’t care about transcoding and the like)… at which point there isn’t much use to a metadata oriented media server/service.

    No you do not need to do any of that.

    Or you can just set up Plex to always download the next 10 episodes of whatever show you are watching when it has network access. I mean… that probably won’t work (see: 40%) but when it does, it is awesome. Which is the “it just works” functionality.

    You can download in Jellyfin also, like in the screenshot above.

    anyone asking for anything else is wrong and stupid.

    I mean, you are asking for things that are already in the app, you tell me if that’s stupid or not. I’m just trying to help.

    I’d never call anyone even trying to use these self-hosted alternatives stupid.

    Jellyfin devs could actually get the “download the next N episodes” functionality to reliably work (even at 80-90%) it would be a killer app

    Is there some reason you can’t do this manually? I actually can’t think of any app with this feature, not even Netflix way back not Spotify.