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.
Personally I just use Nicotine+ to grab whatever I want as a .flac, then use beets to organize them.
I also use Nicotine+ but I have Picard for organization.
Ah I hadn’t heard of Picard before, I’ll take a look!
I’ve tried beets. Very manual. I like Nicotine
Newly created account account asking where our pirated sources are and asking for quite intimate details
Interesting
🤔
Y’all are way too trusting
Well, it is because firehawk52 is throwing in the towel, that’s why, as he used to be the go to for web dl ing from streaming services
Intimate details?
I’m asking for a strategy that could almost as easily apply to Spotify.
I open amazon music and copy over all the album and single links from an artist I like to lucida to download them all as flacs, then I use an ffmpeg script to convert them all to 320kb mp3s. I reformat the names and metadata and put them into my music folder.
I enjoy my music.
Interesting. I forgot lucida was a thing.
I pay for Spotify, but since some of my favourite songs are not available anymore (they’re greyed out, as if they lost the rights) I decided I won’t renew. Back to piracy!
Acquisation:
- Buy CD and then rip with ExactAudioCopy
- Buy media from various sellers like Bandcamp, ototoy, Amazon Music, etc. (basically the official vendor that sells the artists music)
- Acquire FLAC or MP3 through various means lile nyaa, slskd, indexer, DDL
Manage:
- Lidarr. If not available in Lidarr, create entry in musicbrainz, wait 7 days then import
Listen:
- Jellyfin
- Symfonium
Dropped needle (newer version of musicseerr) plugged into lidarr and slsk. Using musicbrainz. A few good indexers/sources on the back end set to flac and high quality versions for the profile. Relatively fast and good coverage overall. Slsk helps to fill in the gaps
Newpipe : download audio VLC : play audio
archivetune is better
Occasionally yt-***
But mostly relying on old big library of mp3s from oink’s 20 years ago.
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.
Soulseek. On Linux I use Nicotene.
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…
Good old Soulseek, but filtering by opus.
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 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.
It’s mostly for a lack of equipment, storage, and money for it paired with decision fatigue on how to go about it and overwhelm from all the things I want to host… So I sit with the old laptop I’d use and dink around with learning nix->guix, daydreaming about the whole thing and hardly getting anywhere lol
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
Generate, as in list them, yes? I’m somewhat amenable to LLM use in such a search, but “AI” “music” is worse than TJ Maxx in the 90s.
