[pmoriarty]

I am not a professional music producer, but I do produce music as a hobby. I'm also a sysadmin, so I know full well how to self-host everything myself. But it's just such a pain it's not worth it for me. So much easier to just upload it to Soundcloud and let them worry about serving it and maintaining it.

Now, if a sysadmin like myself won't bother, I really doubt your average musician with relatively weak or non-existant sysadmin skills is going to bother self-hosting. Professional musicians might hire someone to do it for them, but most music producers aren't professional.

That said, I stopped uploading my music to Soundcloud ever since they dropped groups. That was the main way I shared my music and discovered new music myself. Soundcloud is not mostly just a static music storage service for me now, and without an easy way to discover new music, it's not even worth the bother for me to upload anything there anymore.

I'm now hunting around for a good Soundcloud replacement.

[bphogan]

I made a thing to share an s3 bucket. The files in the dir get listed with temporary download links and I use HTML <audio> tags to get the player to work.

The current version makes you authenticate with a username and password or google login as I made this to share some songs with someone who wanted to license them from me.

https://github.com/napcs/s3server

I am hacking on a branch this week that will support publicly sharing a directory. If anyone wants to hack on this, I'd love it. It's pretty minimal right now but it's open source and it works, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[falcolas]

How is it a "such a pain" to host a bunch of static files with some HTML?

You could probably even do it with Jekyll and S3 (or similar) if you really wanted.