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.

  • Toasticus@piefed.socialEnglish
    1·
    6 hours ago

    I go out to thrift stores, buy CDs and I make a little boat to ship CDs in. I would hope someone just send me a boat back with CDs I’d listen to. To make sure of it, every CD I ship out, has a notecard written about what genre of music I like, what artists I particularly like, what genres I don’t like and what artists I don’t wish to hear.

    This is how I make my trade. I’m a real pirate, arrrr.

  • Scrollone@feddit.itEnglish
    3·
    20 hours ago

    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!

  • DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    9·
    1 day ago

    Newly created account account asking where our pirated sources are and asking for quite intimate details

    Interesting

    🤔

    Y’all are way too trusting

  • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    4·
    14 hours ago

    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
  • Sludge@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    4·
    2 days ago

    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

  • printf("%s", name);@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    20·
    2 days ago

    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.🤷‍♀️

    • BillButter@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
      7·
      2 days ago

      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

      • printf("%s", name);@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        2·
        2 days ago

        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.

  • kbal@fedia.io
    13·
    2 days ago

    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.

  • retry1203@lemmy.caEnglish
    1·
    1 day ago

    I get music from a variety of sources. Mostly torrents or soulseek. Both are hooked up through Lidarr but I also like to use the soulseek daemon web UI. I also buy off Bandcamp and download from the browser. Less often I get files from friends. All sources lead to “inbox” folders for Beets-flask, which handles tagging and then importing to the actual library. Navidrome serves the library up for clients. Koito handles scrobbles.

    I’ve been trying out Aurral for recommendations and playlist generation but I’m not loving it. Pretty quick I learned it wants me to stream from it’s subsonic API (in place of Navidrome) for best results. I can’t figure out if it will work just off my Koito scrobble history.

    Will try Audiomuse AI at some point. Auto playlist generation would make my stack feel more “modern” I think.

  • 𝚝𝚛𝚔@aussie.zoneEnglish
    2·
    2 days ago

    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.