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.

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.

How did you glue together lidarr and last.fm?

youtube playlist and yt-dlp. most of the music I listen to isn't on other platforms

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

I also use Nicotine+ but I have Picard for organization.

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

Newpipe : download audio
VLC : play audio

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

OTS still runs for you? I get constant DL errors.

Good old Soulseek, but filtering by opus.

Ah I hadn't heard of Picard before, I'll take a look!

I cancelled YT Premium and use Morphe to patch the official YouTube/YT Music apps. Worth looking at. morphe.software

YT Music Morphe -> YTDLnis -> VLC

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.

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

Occasionally yt-***

But mostly relying on old big library of mp3s from oink’s 20 years ago.

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

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!

archivetune is better

Intimate details?

I'm asking for a strategy that could almost as easily apply to Spotify.

I got claude to fix it, took like 15mins 🙏

https://github.com/kushagrasinghx/BitChord

https://github.com/kushagrasinghx/BitChord