I hosted my own music streaming service
My Spotify subscription is years old, I think it might easily be my oldest online service. I've been generally happy with it, save for the regular, unexpected changes to user interface. If Spotify was a person, it would be a roommate who studies interior design and randomly re-arranges your furniture ("this way is better, you'll see!")
However, things have been getting worse: I hear more and more often about Spotify offering bad deals to niche, emerging artists. Possibly for this reason, my favourite songs tend to disappear. When the Iconoclasts soundtrack vanished from Spotify, leaving a big hole in my favourite Indie OST playlist, I decided it's time to take matters into my own hands...
Turns out it's extremely simple to host your own music streaming service! Follow along to find out what setup I ended up with.