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The main challenge for me is recommendations. 99% of the value I get from Spotify is the auto-generated playlists and "song radio" feature. It's easy enough to fill a NAS with flacs but I don't know how to replicate "the algorithm" in a self-hosted setup.
But the related artist list is good for discovery.
The main challenge for me is recommendations. 99% of the value I get from Spotify is the auto-generated playlists and "song radio" feature. It's easy enough to fill a NAS with flacs but I don't know how to replicate "the algorithm" in a self-hosted setup.
Weird, for me Spotify's algorithm is garbage. But the related artist list is good for discovery.
Of course I wouldn't approve of such a procedure.
The two best places to buy music in my opinion are qobuz and bandcamp.
https://github.com/ravachol/kew
I encourage you to go check out my app.
Aside from that, I've got my entire music collection backed up on multiple drives (mostly by accident) and I bought an iPod Classic last year, upgraded the battery and storage, and I've got it all on there too, and it'll play for like a month straight on one battery charge now. Standby was six months easily.
I'm actually gonna turn a Pi Zero into a touchscreen Winamp clone by using Audacious or another app that uses Winamp skins. The main benefit of this is that I can connect it to my Bluetooth home speakers and use it.
My current Samsung doesn't have an SD card, but for my old phone, I just copied all my music to a 128GB micro SD and played it using BlackPlayer.
I'm thinking of getting a newer, cheaper music device because retrofitting Bluetooth into an iPod Classic is a bit of a bitch.
also https://audacious-media-player.org/ on desktop to drop files in directly
The main challenge for me is recommendations. 99% of the value I get from Spotify is the auto-generated playlists and "song radio" feature. It's easy enough to fill a NAS with flacs but I don't know how to replicate "the algorithm" in a self-hosted setup.
The main challenge for me is recommendations. 99% of the value I get from Spotify is the auto-generated playlists and "song radio" feature. It's easy enough to fill a NAS with flacs but I don't know how to replicate "the algorithm" in a self-hosted setup.
I wish there were some self-hosted setup that would replicate this based on either tags, bpm matching, or other similarity indicators snooped from online sites like lastfm.
I suppose you could do it often, or maybe even script it (e.g., with Keyboard Maestro on Mac) to get something a little more dynamic. But it's not something that just matches songs on the fly server side.
For recommendations I went back to asking friends + smaller online communities