How to Create Your Own Music Streaming Service with Plex

In the age of streaming, maintaining a personal music collection is often a lost cause. Opening Spotify is just easier than transferring files between devices or dealing with crappy or discontinued music players. But you don’t need to leave your music collection in the stone age, because you can build your own music streaming service with Plex.

Wait, You Can Use Plex for Music?

Plex is best known as a movie streaming platform. It lets you stream your video collection to any device inside or outside your home, and its fantastic interface automatically fills in the gaps by providing cover art, summaries, and other information for your video files.

But Plex isn’t just for movies. You can also use the service for audio, whether it’s music or audiobooks. And since Plex is free, you can effectively build your own music streaming service without spending a dime. It’s that simple.

What Do You Need for a Plex Server?

You can turn any old computer into a Plex media server. It just needs a reasonable amount of storage space and a stable internet connection, preferably over an Ethernet cable. But as always, I suggest using an NVIDIA Shield TV stick or a Raspberry Pi 4 microcomputer.

The NVIDIA Shield TV and Raspberry Pi 4 are much more power-efficient than full-sized computers, so they should have a minimal impact on your electric bill. And while these products aren’t super powerful, they’re good enough for streaming 4K video, so they won’t have any problem streaming audio. (Note that both of these solutions require external storage.)

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