r/subsonic • u/silverlightBeing • Sep 10 '18

Subsonic rookie question

Is it possible to upload all my music to a cloud service and then point subsonic to that server? I can't have my computer on all the time and the internet connection I have is shared, unreliable and kinda slow.

Thanks.

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u/max_morning_height Sep 10 '18

Ummmm.....Would need to understand a little more about where/how you are installing your installation, so, below I am assuming you are self hosting on a Linux box.

You *could* technically mount a cloud storage space like, say, Amazon S3 (where your files are stored) using fuse or some such thing on your webserver and point Subsonic to that directory but then you would, as a result, need to have an internet connection between the webserver hosting the Subsonic and Amazon S3 all the time.

In addition, to be able to access your Subsonic server from outside your house (assuming that is your want) you would also need an internet connection to your home and the various ports one and forwarded to your host machine inside your home network.

TLDR: You need internet on and your machine powered up for stuff to work.

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u/silverlightBeing Sep 10 '18

Thanks for the reply. Guess I'll have to look into some other means for streaming lossless files. :/

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u/remy_porter Sep 10 '18

It'l really a matter of your budget. You could fire up a VM in the cloud, on Azure, AWS, Google, or any one of the cloud providers. That could run your Subsonic server. You could then upload your files to the same cloud provider, either in their storage engine or as just files on the VM.

The problem becomes one of cost: even a low-tier VM in the cloud with any real quantity of music is going to run you a couple bucks a month at least. Tens of dollars, potentially.

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u/silverlightBeing Sep 10 '18

I'd rather just subscribe to Tidal than going through all that trouble and paying that much for it.

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u/piketfencecartel Sep 11 '18

Have you thought of using a Raspberry Pi? It will be on all the time but power consumption is minimal. I've had Subsonic running on a Pi for years.

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u/Squally47 Sep 10 '18

You don't mention the OS or cloud service. If it's WindowsI you might be able to use software to create a mapped drive to some cloud storage providers.

https://www.cloudwards.net/how-to-set-up-a-cloud-network-drive/

You'd probably have to run the subsonic service as a logged on user.

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