More than just ‘what app are you using’, but I do want that as well.
I want a good mindset for downloading music that has what I want and at least some of what I’ll probably like.
Currently, partially as a limitation of the app, I have every song in every album that contains something I like. This works well ish for discovery, but I know less than a quarter of my library, no matter how much time I spend listening to new music. This was with Lidar + tubifary (Tidal and Slskd only).
Currently I’m trying Downtify configured with slskd and yt as a backup, but it seems very slow to download and the app itself is very laggy.
I am on a music private tracker called Orpheus… I download everything I want from there. I also have navidrome, it automatically scans the folder for new albums and I have transcoding enabled so whenever I play music it transcodes to opus 162kbps. That’s if.
I download albums (through piracy or not) and add them to my modest mp3 collection the same way I used to buy CDs — once in a while when it seems like a good idea. If there’s an album I don’t think is worth listening to again, I delete it.
I delete it.
HERESY!!!
On a similar note, I’ve been curious if that’s a tool that one could feed a playlist into and have it return another playlist, based on the former’s genre, tone, bpm, lyrical theming, etc. I’m not even sure how to begin searching, though. 🤷🏼♂️
Also, I have the slimmest idea of what to recommend here, sorry. 🙇🏼♂️
You can kinda use audiomuse? Scans your local library and by way of a plugin can generate songs that sound like a given song.
Doesn’t work on a whole playlist, but this is a start
lidarr + streamrip (tidal, i have a subscription there, so not free, my point is owning the music offline, dont really mind paying, esp bcs tidal gives a bit more money to musicians than spotify) + navidrome + music assistant
music assistant also has tidal linked, meaning i have the full catalogue and discovery via streaming.
if i like a song, i tell streamrip to download the album, put it into navidrome, and music assistant will then actually start using the local version which is cool
Same setup. I did “make” a crappy bridge between Lidarr and Streamrip to search and download from my Qobuz subscription.
I’ve used Tidal Plus lidarr, and that’s probably been my favorite setup. What does Music Assistant and StreamRip add to this stack? I don’t know either of these apps.
streamrip downloads songs from tidal/quobuz/spotify so you have a drm free local copy
music assistant is a part of home assistant, meaning i integrate my local music library into my smart home with music assistant.
i also have audiobookshelf (selfhosted audiobooks obv) and nextcloud gpodder (selfhosted podcast subscription and listen history sync) hooked into it, meaning in one app that has access to all speakers in my home and also my smartphone, i can listen to all audio related stuff
I have Lidarr setup to track album and singles releases from a handful of artists and bands that I am really, really into so I don’t miss something. Mostly, though, I acquire new music the same way I always have, something catches my ear somewhere and I go looking for it.
Discovery is kinda all over the place, but lately Youtube has been pretty good at suggesting new artists and tracks to listen to, though, it is occasionally hard to actually acquire said track or album. Other places have movie and tv show soundtracks, ListenBrainz recommendations and occasionally an actual radio station…
For the most part, I’ve moved away from pirating music and audiobooks as it’s generally pretty easy to find an above-board source that is either DRM free or can be cracked easily. When I do pirate something for whatever reason, I’ll usually go back later and purchase a copy. I would rather support the artists since I usually have the means at present and most of the artists I’m into aren’t really all that big. I really wish that ebooks, tv shows and movies would get the damned hint and do the same…
I don’t know all this fancy stuff. Like, yesterday, I wanted to listen to the songs from the anime The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya so I grabbed them from nyaa, moved them from the “Downloads” directory to the “Music” directory and then played it with VLC.🤷♀️
If it works, it works. Don’t fix what ain’t broken.
When you run into issues of scale, hopefully the ecosystem is a little more forgiving
Yeah, to be fair, I mostly pirate video. Music, I listen to from Tidal through USB Audio Player (Android). I only ever grab audio that’s not available on Tidal.
Personally I just use Nicotine+ to grab whatever I want as a .flac, then use beets to organize them.
I’ve tried beets. Very manual. I like Nicotine
I also use Nicotine+ but I have Picard for organization.
I use soulseek and the FMHY list of sites for acquisition. As far as discovery, no idea really. I’m still working on getting my Spotify favorites downloaded for now. I have kinda gotten back on last.fm for scrobbling and hopefully some discovery, but honestly I connected mpdscribble and haven’t looked at it since.
Navidrome has been on my radar for unifying mobile access instead of syncthing duplicating everything, but I keep putting off setting up a home server.
I used SyncThing for years, but once I got into self hosting, I never looked back.
If you ever decide to bite the bullet, reach out, I’ll help how I can. Self hosting is the fun part of listening to music.
slsk! When Audiogalaxy got shut down, that’s where we fled to. Not as much these days since I have a Deezer sub, but every now and again the completionist in me wants the flacs for offine. Have a large repository that goes back to the late 1990s when EMusic accounts were being shared and there were no gates to stop that. Was like backing your pickup truck to the Amoeba Records loading dock and filling er up!
Soulseek is kinda weird now. Wasn’t always full of gatekeepers and the stuffy folks. Time changes things, I suppose. Some of my old slsk friends are still on there.
I’m still very much in the process of finding what will work for me. Music Assistant to somewhat merge my YT Music and my locally stored files in one workflow. Last.fm and Listenbrainz scrobbling for generating recommendations for me. Maybe in a while I’ll feel like I don’t want YTM anymore, but right now I still find it hard to leave it fully. Lidarr and Tubifarry are also part of my stack.
On ‘good mindset’: I’m afraid that’s still something that needs attention, and I hope to find it with what I currently use as I’m still too comfortable streaming YTM.
Mostly rutracker + jpopsuki.
Soulseek. On Linux I use Nicotene.
I usually walk into a music store, fill up a box and scream “bye bitches” and leave.
i used to download from deezer when public ARLs were extremely easy to get and use, but they got more restrictive recently. these days i just soulseek.
do you have any guides on how to use soulseek? is it safe to use on public wi-fi? (And will I get a letter from my ISP lol)
soulseek is very easy to use. everyone shares a folder on their computer, and one can query keywords on everyone’s directory listing and download off of them.
install the client nicontine+ (on desktop. if on android, use ‘seeker’. there’s none for ios), choose a nickname, set a shared folder, optionally fill it with some media you already have, and you can start using immediately. i recommend setting the shared folder the same as the soulseek download folder so you get to share what you download.
since soulseek is P2P and requires direct network connection, at least one of two peers need open ports. so if you have open ports you can download from everyone, but with closed ports you can only download from those who have their ports open. so, port forwarding is optional and not strictly necessary.
i haven’t ever heard of receiving letters from ISP because of soulseek, since it’s surprisingly quite under the radar for some reason. ISP letters are usually because of torrents. but still, soulseek protocol is unencrypted so it’s not impossible. because of this i don’t recommend usage on public wifi. use it through a VPN if you can.
I check out CDs from my local/county library system and rip them to my hard drive. I use XLD and Picard. Then add it to my Jellyfin server.
