I’m tired of being screwed over so I’m done. So far I have:
- Installed YouTube music and YouTube via Morphe
- Installed uBlock Origin, Sponsor Block and YouTube Enhanced on Firefox
- I’ve also installed YT-DLP to download videos if I have to.
Yet to do:
- Work out the best app for my Nvidia Shield Pro 2019
- Work out if there are any alternatives or way to still use my google nest minis in any way.
Does anyone have any advice or tools to help improve the experience?
Finally I have to add that I do also have a full ARR suite installed and setup on a raspberry pi for but I’ve always found Lidarr to be the weakest of the bunch. Works a treat for my TV shows and Music
Lidarr works okay-ish with soularr
soulseek/nicotine :3
If you are are already doing docker slskd is a nice container client for soulseek.
Hi I have installed the slskd image and I can access the web interface now. I was wondering if you could help because I’m not connected to the server and I don’t see how to “register” or login
Thank you, I will look into soulseek!
when I’m in need of offline music I pay for one month of tidal and then use streamrip to download it all
That’s not a bad idea at all!
navidrome, self-hosted is what I use. Personally, the less I have to contact google’s servers for the media I enjoy, the better.
Sorry I don’t have better advice, but alongside soulseek, lucida.to, and torrents, I have way more music than I think I’ll ever be able to listen to in my lifetime.
I need to get navidrome set up, but I’m also wary of selfhosting anything externally accessible at home. As it is I just sync my music between phone and pc which works well enough.
The one thing I haven’t been able to find is a good music recommendation or discovery solution a la Spotify daily mixes
Set it up with NetBird or Tailscale so it isn’t externally accessible.
Yeah, I use Tidal for recommendations, then download so they don’t rug-pull me.
Ok I think this is a very attractive option. This is the first I’m hearing of navidrome!
Another vote of support for Navidrome from me.
I used Morphe as well, but I got annoyed at having to go and fix those songs that have the audio from the music video, for example Cake - Short Skirt/Long Jacket. Only option to not have that is to create a playlist and replace the music video with another version. Sometimes that meant using some random persons upload of the song. Not very nice to do when you just want to click “play full album” and enjoy music.
Anyway, took me like 6 months to build current music library, its around 120gb at the moment. Got all the most important ones there, now its just a matter of going “oh right I need [artist name] in there as well!” every two weeks. I set things up for my dad as well, so now he can enjoy the Navidrome stuff as well, thats a big bonus.
I’ve not come across any of those annoyances yet with Morphe, but I’ve only been using it for a day or so.
Oh, nothing wrong with Morphe itself. Its great, I love it.
But the Youtube Music part of it is a bit shit.
Very relevant comment, navidrome is amazing
I’ve never heard of it before. It’s sounding very convincing
What’s the spot for music torrents nowadays?
I just use soulseek/Nicotine+ or I keep it old school cause it’s never let me down and use pirate bay still.
This is the way to go. And it’s really satisfying to see randos downloading your music. I never clear the “upload” tab lol
I second the existing recommendations. Unfortunately Lidarr is only partially operational. My stack consists of:
- Music on a large storage drive
- Slskd so it keeps my account active and supplies a WebUI for downloads (but if you try to browse users with 500K songs, the browser just dies trying to load it all in memory)
- Beetbox beets for metadata embedding, renaming and moving into the final storage as per my naming convention. Pro tip: pipx install beets[lyrics] to include the lrclib plugin
- Navidrome for hosting a personal streaming service. Comes with a WebUI, and is SubSonic compatible to allow any SubSonic client such as Symfonium or Tempo (available on F-droid).
For my particular use case (Proxmox-based container), I have a tutorial available. This can no doubt be adapted slightly if your system differs.
Thanks for taking the time to write such a detailed answer. Lidarr is a complete flop for me I find it very frustrating to use!
I just got slskd for soulseek going. You can add slskd as a source in lidarr. Need to add a plug-in to do so. I’ve also noticed lidarr sucks with torrents, but now that it’s using slskd it’s been pretty great. There’s also nicotine+ if you want a desktop app to connect to soulseek, but seeing as I already had portainer and a bunch of docker stuff already, I went with slskd.
I found a soulseek image for my portainer setup but I’m struggling to get it to work. Navidrome works perfectly which is exciting. I don’t really understand the difference or rather the connection between slskd and soulseek
SmartTube for your nvidia shield. You’ll need ‘Downloader’ to get it. Also check out Project Ivy for the shield if you want a better UI
Excellent, very happy to hear there is an option for shield! I’ve never heard of project Ivy to I will take a look
My main issue with music streamers is that lately they have been pumping way too much AI garbage music into my playlist.
What’s a good playlist generation app to discover music in the same vein as a song or album I select?
I’ll give it a try. I have not pirated music since the 2Ks. Enshittification is gonna drive me back out to sea.
last.fm isnt really piracy tho, iirc you can use their scrobbler with all sorts of things including spotify
Soulseek, start to collect and share your music collection in high-quality format (FLAC)
I recommend grayjay on your phone+fcast receiver on your tv.
I couldn’t get Lidarr to work very well so I started using Soulseek. Highly recommend it!
They are not even close to being the same…
The closest topic they share is being about music.You can use slskd as a source in lidarr to download from soulseek. Gives you the nice *arr format and auto downloads, but connected to soulseek you actually get results to download.
Slskd is a plugin which isnt officially supported. So no support in the discord if you have to ask about issues.
I really hate that all the support channels are moving to discord instead of the web where you can just search and find the answers, because it’s almost a guarantee that someone else already had the problem and it got answered. And you used to just be able to Google to find the answer. Now every question is, this is a support question, closing the thread go to discord.
Discord is the equivalenf of “I need support now”.
Sort of like a lifeline for personalized issues.
Sometimes self inflicted.Your described issues are something else. Something that is worthy a git issue.
Yes it annoys me to. But there are channels for each topic. And to be fair, a forum aint exactly support friendly for on-demand questions.
Huh, I’ll have to try that out. Thanks!
Yeah Lidarr is just not that good, thanks for the recommendation.
Lidarr is also no source but a search engine. If you don’t supply it with indexers it’s of course “shit”.
Same as the eternal issue of bing vs google as a search engine.Comparing apples and oranges…
Hi. I’m not saying it’s shit. I know you need an indexer. I just wasn’t a huge fan of how it oragnised music and it struggles with discs with multiple artists etc. Maybe I didn’t know hoe best to utilise it properly, which is most likely the case.
It doesnt organize what musicbrainz isnt providing. And it does what musicbrainz does.
The main artist is the sorting artist.
Additional artists are just that. Additions.
If it is an even collab, it’s either under ‘Various Artists’ or on the other artist.Does it bother me? Yep.
I think how Spotify does it, it’s better (listing all artists on the album). But that’s now how the industry seems to work ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Keep in mind, if your VPN only has one port you can forward, which is likely to be the case, you have to choose between Soulseek and your torrent client.
