Edit: Also please tell me if a meme is even allowed as the thumbnail for the post in this community - just feels like it gets some of my current desperation across :D
Since the last time I posted here sharing my new home server, I've gotten a little more acquainted with the services I'm using. After getting acquisition of shows and movies sorted, I ventured into music (streaming).
As many here, I'm used to using streaming services for music, ie. Spotify or YouTube Music. Naturally, I tried a similar approach by setting up my Arr stack to feed its music into Jellyfin where the music is picked up by Symfonium. I tried it out for a couple days and liked it quite a bit since it keeps my phone clean of "unnecessary" data but I still retain access to music. Unfortunately, the way I acquire my music limits my selection quite a bit unless I venture into torrenting, which I'd prefer not to. So unless I figure out a safe way to torrent on my server, I'm stuck with getting access to a very limited selection of artists and albums.
In addition to that limitation, there's also the files formats of the music. Most of the music I've downloaded was only available in FLAC, which is awesome if you've got the bandwidth and data plan for playback, but for me it means that I spend 3GB of data for a day of streaming music which is just not sustainable.
In comparison, I can set up a Revanced version of Spotify in addition to my Revanced YT Music to get access to all the music I could want. Unfortunately, that comes with the caveat of still being tied to the companies I'm trying to get rid of - albeit not financially anymore, but I'm still sharing my data.
Ultimately, I'm not sure what to do. What I love about self-hosting is the independence from all the companies we're being fucked over by in all kinds of imaginable ways. But if it's free, outside my sharing data with them, can I really compete?
I'd be interested in hearing your opinions and thoughts on this. How did you solve music streaming with your build?
Don't use revanced. The backbone of the dev team moved to morphs now, and so do other modders that used to dev using revanced.
https://morphe.software/
There was a bunch of drama that's worthy for Lemmy but stuck in reddit that I don't care to bring here.
It got easier to patch things in some ways, but having known how to do it "the complex way" with vanced and revanced before I feel like some is lost in translation.
But overall it's a lot better with morphe, the patches against megacorps efforts to block access comes quicker than revanced, and the YouTube minimum app requirement now moved up
Alright, I'll give this a shot. What's the harm in keep using Revanced, I'm wondering tho? Vulnerabilities that may not be patched out? Or is it just about the lack of features/overall functionality if new patches are rolled out slower/not at all?
From what I can see in both subreddits, it's mostly buggy and failed patching as far as I can see for those sticking with revanced.
I'm unsure on vulnerabilities but if the recommended app version is old enough or not working on bypassing using newer versions, I'm sure is not good.
Also I forgot to mention this previously but in revanced aubreddit the mention of morphe is a subreddit bannable offence. At least that's what the morphe fans are saying. Personally the ones egging on revanced is childish but I can and can't properly vouch.
A bit of my history of how I knew all these
I started to use URV (I think that stands for universal revanced) because that took base revanced manager and added ways to easily use different patch repos. Back then it's because I was still patching xitter app. So I already wasn't using the revanced manager for a few weeks but still use their repo on that URV.
Then I saw a weird post in revanced sub about some dev tiff. A month from that post I somehow got to see a morphe post in the revanced sub so I tried morphe and stuck around a bit in morphe's sub. That's how I know what happened so I decided to trust the morphe guys.
Technical wise I just have no idea how differing they are. I just stick with the results I personally get.
Edit: oh my the tone of my two comments is night and day to me lol
Thanks for the detailed write-up. So far, I can't tell there's much of a difference outside the limited amount of apps you can patch - Revanced had a lot more to offer. Functionality-wise, they apps themselves seem identical, so I don't really care which I use.
Alsp no worries about the tone of yours comments - came off fine :) and thanks again for the suggestion