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!

Occasionally yt-***

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

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

Interesting

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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.

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

Newpipe : download audio VLC : play audio

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 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.

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.

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

I don’t pirate music, I buy it from Bandcamp. Then I download the files to my storage server and sync it to my phone, or play it with MPD.

I wish I could do the same with movies and TV shows…