Life
30 Days with Subsonic
So it’s been a little over a month since I [ditched Plex]({{ site.baseurl }}{% link _posts/2019/01/2019-01-12-before-and-after-plex.md %}) in favor of Subsonic, and I’ve started to get the hang of things. I was initially a little skeptical if I would like the service enough to fork out for the premium version or not. With a 30 day free trial I didn’t have much to lose however.
There wasn’t an official docker image, unlike Plex, so I went with the one provided by mbirth which works well enough. As an aside, Kubernetes and Docker made trying this out super simple. I left around my old Plex configs for a couple of days until I was satisfied that Subsonic would work. I was able to modify my volume mounts without having to move any of my actual media and Subsonic picked up on it right away.
Before and After Plex
Services like Spotify, or Pandora are great for access to a wide variety of music. Over the years, I’ve built up a decent collection of music (At last count 256 different albums), and I tend ti like listening to my own music when given the chance. The convenience of streaming is hard to beat however, so I tried a couple different services that would allow me to stream my own music. The most obvious choice was Google Play Music, which allows users to upload 50,000 songs to their servers for no cost. I used this for a while but eventually wanted to rely on Google’s services less. This led me to evaluate tools like Emby and Plex. I liked Emby’s more open source model, but whenever I tried to use the mobile app I experienced pretty unusable lag. So that left me with Plex.