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I've been using this for a little over a year and like it a lot but it lacks the music discovery features of commercial platforms (which becomes important when
by dvno42 6y ago
I've been using this for a little over a year and like it a lot but it lacks the music discovery features of commercial platforms (which becomes important when you have terabytes of music) and takes a lot of effort to organize music and create play lists. The music onboarding process typically starts with organizing metadata with Musicbrainz Picard then import the collection into Funkwhale's DB via a cli admin tool. I have funkwhale hosted at home attached to my own music collection. There is an unofficial mobile client called Otter that makes listening to music on Android very pleasent. Admin overhead aside, this program has become a part of my daily life and I greatly appreciate the developers efforts.
- Findeton 6y agoI cannot upvote Funkwhale enough. I've had the need for something like this for a long long time now. A decade ago I was lucky to have my own desktop computer (before it was a shared one with my brother, before that I had just my parent's from time to time). Nowadays, between the smarphone, the work laptop, my desktop and my laptop I cannot possibly have all my music available all the time. And I don't like using spotify where I don't feel I own the songs and they get dropped from my lists. I used to be a fan of grooveshark, but that went down. Now I can have my pod and share it with my friends? On my own server? Accessible everywhere? I'm in. Where can I donate some money?
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- avinassh 6y ago> Where can I donate some money? https://funkwhale.audio/support-us/ https://funkwhale.audio/support-us/ (not affiliated with funkwhale, just found the link from their site)
- dbrgn 6y ago> I've had the need for something like this for a long long time now. Note that there are a few projects like this one, for example Subsonic or Mopidy. (Funkywhale certainly looks nice though!)
- xook 6y agoThrowing this out here - Airsonic is the current FOSS iteration of the software https://airsonic.github.io/ https://airsonic.github.io/ Subsonic went closed, and the rebrand to LibreSonic had some unrest with the maintainer, so Airsonic is leading the way in the line of *Sonics.
- AsyncAwait 6y agoOr if you want something that can run easily on a RaspberryPi but still gives you Subsonic compatibility, try https://github.com/sentriz/gonic https://github.com/sentriz/gonic
- ngold 6y agoThis is a great link, I've been looking for a pi project and a music server sounds really spiffy.
- greggman3 6y agoWhich music service's discovery features actually work? For me the only one that worked was Google Play Music. The rest have been total and utter crap at discovery.
- erfgh 6y agoYoutube.
- bigyikes 6y agoI have been reasonably happy with Spotify’s discovery. It hasn’t been impressive as YouTube recommendations, but it’s still the primary way I find new music. Their generated “Discovery Weekly” playlist is a favorite of mine.
- tristanMatthias 6y agoI love Spotify’s. I discover new stuff every week because of it in a very broad range of musical categories
- chrisweekly 6y agoSpotify is outstanding in this regard. "Go to radio" from any given track or album; works every time. For even more passive discovery, their "discover weekly" and "release radar" do a good job of surfacing things too.
- rapnie 6y ago"discover weekly" was okay, but it is now completely broken to me. It suggests 80-90% of songs I already downloaded, and the remainder are always the same. Also discover weekly stops after, what, 2-3hrs of listening. Then the list is done and apparently Spotify thinks there's no more to discover. Luckily indeed there's the radio feature.
- greggman3 6y agoSorry but Spotify is absolutely horrible in this regard. At least for me. Every group I like pick "Radio" and with in 2 to 4 songs it's playing completely unrelated stuff. The rest has all been crap too. "discover weekly" has never once suggested a single thing I'm interested in ever.
- HeadsUpHigh 6y agoHow big is your collection and how well does it work with it ( and what resources does it consume)?
- anderspitman 6y ago> There is an unofficial mobile client called Otter that makes listening to music on Android very pleasent Is there some reason servers like this require a special client? Can't you just provide URLs to m3u8s which in turn have URLs to mp3s? Is it just that there isn't an agreed-upon protocol for listing directories? Or maybe auth concerns?
- Johan-bjareholt 6y agoAnd maybe for creating playlists? And maybe for modifying playlists? And maybe for searching for songs/albums/artists? And maybe for modifying metadata? Considering all these features that needs to be supported it makes sense IMO that it's a specific protocol.
- anderspitman 6y agoPlaylists are just m3u8 files, so you just need to support HTTP PUT, yeah? You've got me on search.
- anta40 6y agoCool, will setup this at weekend. I still heavily use Spotify. Yet I hate knowing some tracks are not playable (permission/copyright issue perhaps?). Time to re-organize my MP3 collection, then.