I actually even made my own bullshit-Spotify. As in, I’ve got a server running on a single-board computer which reads my music folder and serves a small music player as a webpage.
I didn’t want to install a music player client on my work laptop, but still wanted to listen to my own songs there.
bullshit-Spotify
The only proper use-case.
I just self host jellyfin
It even works for the music library!? Jellyfin is crazy rad.
Really well actually. The mobile app does not support download “caching” of music, but third party apps like synfonium do.
The jellyfin music experience is really good, not perfect, but still really good.
Yeah I switched to it from Plex. Plex wouldn’t stop forgetting my libraries and revoking permissions.
i have different directories named after moods/styles filled with hard links to my music. works better than playlists for me
So real. I’ve always thought music apps like iTunes/Spotify etc. were superfluous when you already have a file system and sym links.
i used symlinks first, but they break when you rename target files or directories.
as long as it’s one file system, hard links work better for me. so one day i replaced them all with hard links.
real. I was using “mpv --shuffle soundcloud-playlist-link-here” for a while because soundcloud’s shuffle literally does not work
Mplayer? What year is it? I thought everyone is on mpv now 8-)
I have all music on my phone and host Navidrome server on LAN, also on my phone in Termux.
Audacious with Winamp skins it’s where it’s at.
But how do you get latest tracks?
Soulseek > Freyr > yt-dlp
Soulseek is better for more popular tracks and artists and in normally better quality.
Freyr can be fed a spotify/apple music link, find the highest quality version and pull the file from YouTube music or YouTube. Then it will automatically write the appropriate metadata and cover art to the songs.
If all else fails, yt-dlp to directly rip from YouTube.
Or buy it legally. In the past I’ve gotten songs by buying from Artists’ website, bandcamp, and iTunes.
yt-dlp
No. Low quality multi-generation lossy re-encodes.
Soulseek or doubledouble.top
Yeah okay but how do you discover new music?
Shazam what I hear around me and like. Often it’s just bus drivers listening to music, and since I sit in the front if possible, I can discover music. Or just radio, whether it’s FM, DAB+ or internet. AM is usually limited to news and bazillion chinese stations.
you should swap Shazam for the open source “Audile” :
Nothing worth listening to has been produced since 1989 /s
