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.
YT Music Morphe -> YTDLnis -> VLC
Newpipe : download audio VLC : play audio
Good old Soilseek, but filtering by opus.
Aquisation:
- 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
youtube playlist and yt-dlp. most of the music I listen to isn’t on other platforms
Lidarr, and YouTube Music with last.fm scrobbling.
Lidarr monitors my last.fm scrobbles and automatically downloads anything I’ve listened to enough.
I also manually add stuff to lidarr that I’ve heard on radio stations like 4ZZZ, or as soundtracks to movies and TV shows I’m watching.
Currently at 2.8TB on my music library.
I’m pulling from torrent sites as the preference, with Usenet backup. FLAC quality, and CD source. I’ve also ripped all my CDs, and updated Musicbrainz for stuff that didn’t already exist there so it works nicely with lidarr.
Tried using Soulseek but it’s laughably bad. Wrong tags, gatekeepers who have ludicrous restrictions on their libraries, and most music is just (poorly) downloaded from streaming services anyway.
I use Plexamp for listening, or YouTube Music. Mostly I’m just downloading it because I know at some point in the future I’m going to crack the sads with paying the price YouTube Music charges. Seems to go up every month. When I get rid of it I want a decent library ready to go, and a nice listening history so the the recommendations aren’t total shite.
I cancelled YT Premium and use Morphe to patch the official YouTube/YT Music apps. Worth looking at. morphe.software
How did you glue together lidarr and last.fm?
Import list: https://wiki.servarr.com/en/lidarr/supported#lists
And I use https://ytmdesktop.app/ on the desktop which has last.fm scrobbling built in.
I also run the last.fm scrobble app on my phone, though it’s honestly a bit hit and miss. Probably Android updates breaking it’s ability to read notifications and/or stay running. Seems to be working at the moment mind you.
I have 200,000ish scrobbles on last.fm
Download torrents, organise by artist/album and manage/consume it with Plex.
nicotine+ also I make playlists in Spotify and download them with onthespot, and then finally use old school forums for niche bits.
OTS still runs for you? I get constant DL errors.
I buy loads and loads of old vinyl records from various discount bins, flea markets and thrift stores. If it’s 1 or 2 €: I often just buy blind if cover is somewhat appealing to me or because artists names ring a bell for me.
If I like what I hear, I obtain an mp3 copy of it (various sources) for my library. If I really liked it and can’t find it digitally (it happens): I record my own vinyl record to have a digital copy. My file preference is mp3 VBR. I think flac is overkill for most basic soundsystems and human ears and they are not worth the enormous filesize difference.
I get my music from discord servers and sometimes soulseek if I can’t find a song or album, and then play it using USB Audio Player Pro since I use an external dac. Symfonium is also another great player with a highly customisable interface that I sometimes use
Symfonium is a paid app. I use Tempus (which is free) and while it has fewer features, it’s more than enough for me.
It’s so worth it for the price (it was like $1.50 in my region) Tempus looks great, it Reminds me of Oto Music which is also another great free player that has the fastest library scanner I’ve found in any player I’ve tried which is very useful if you have a large music library like I do
It’s a lot more expensive in Europe, 9EUR. Not saying it’s not worth it, just that I don’t really feel like I need it.
Oto music also has a really good music tagger that also lets you edit metadata for entire albums in bulk, which is the only reason I use it for lol
I second the Symfonium recommendation - Feishin is a great desktop player as well. Click the now playing album on the bottom left for a full screen mode with visualiser/lyrics/up next screen present alongside the now playing info 👍🏼
get the original cd/vinyl/non-remastered (there are exceptions) release flac from nicotine+ for my desktop, convert it to 96 kbps opus for my phone.
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
Jellyfin + Nicotine+
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.
