After setting up this blog, I finally got the energy to tackle another long-shelved idea — self-hosting my .flac music library and streaming it to all my devices (phone, laptop, work laptop).
Armed with Claude Code, I did some research and landed on Navidrome. It’s focused purely on music and speaks a protocol with a huge ecosystem of clients.
The best find for my desktops was a slick TUI player — ferrosonic.
ferrosonic fork
Everything was working great, but I quickly noticed the player was missing a few things I really wanted:
- Volume control
- Album art display
- Shareable track links for other streaming services
- Discord integration (just for fun)
My Rust is nowhere near good enough to tackle this alone, so I kept the Claude fun going — forked the repo, and within a couple of days everything on the list was in. I use it daily now. Love it.
I also have a vague idea of adding some kind of feed for new releases from artists in my library, but we’ll see when I get around to it.
Other things I’d like to self-host at some point:
- Immich for photos
- ntfy.sh
- Jellyfin