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A personal music streaming server that works

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Re: A personal music streaming server that works

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Does anyone recommend any resource for downloading high quality.mp3/FLAC music that I can use put on my personal streaming service. I know I can pirate but I really want to buy it legally in a way artists might benefit. Places like Band camp have very small collections. I know of 7 digital https://uk.7digital.com/ But for some reason "This store is not available for your location"

You can still buy music from iTunes, not sure what formats you can download but AFAIK it's DRM-free these days

Re: A personal music streaming server that works

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https://github.com/koel/koel/issues/1099 Looks like the "sqlite-e2e" is for integration-test only.

Interesting, I wouldn't consider another DB driver for integration tests if that isn't usable in production. Probably a good reason for it but can anyone clarify why that's done?

Well, sqlite is the most simple alternative that's great for local testing.

Re: A personal music streaming server that works

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://github.com/koel/koel/issues/1099 Looks like the "sqlite-e2e" is for integration-test only.

But sqlite is the only choice from those options that makes any sense for a personal music server. (I use it in this role, with my own home-brewed media and documents library.)

It definitely should be the default IMO.

Re: A personal music streaming server that works

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post #24

Does anyone recommend any resource for downloading high quality.mp3/FLAC music that I can use put on my personal streaming service. I know I can pirate but I really want to buy it legally in a way artists might benefit. Places like Band camp have very small collections. I know of 7 digital https://uk.7digital.com/ But for some reason "This store is not available for your location"

Beatport is the other place I buy from. Unfortunately if it's not on bandcamp or beatport the only remaining place is itunes.

Re: A personal music streaming server that works

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Huh, demo not bad actually, and fair one-time pricing for plus version.

Although it did turn my relatively high-end laptop into the new GE hypersonic ramjet[1] and I couldn't hear the music over the fans... the visualizers were slow (wondering if it doesn't have 3d acceleration?) on Firefox / Linux. (Worked fine on Chrome.)

+1 for Jonathan Coulton though.

1 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40943253

Re: A personal music streaming server that works

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post #24

Does anyone recommend any resource for downloading high quality.mp3/FLAC music that I can use put on my personal streaming service. I know I can pirate but I really want to buy it legally in a way artists might benefit. Places like Band camp have very small collections. I know of 7 digital https://uk.7digital.com/ But for some reason "This store is not available for your location"

beatport, beatsource, traxxsource, bandcamp. I think iTune store has 256kb/s AAC wich should be equal or better to high quality mp3. And I believe amazon music is similar.

Re: A personal music streaming server that works

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So instead of being able to use a wide variety of clients with established providers like jellyfin or plex etc., I’d be limited to koel’s app only? Jellyfin also just works for me.

I’m not opposed to new media servers, but with this starting out freemium, and with a proprietary API, I don’t see much reason to use it.

Re: A personal music streaming server that works

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post #37
post #24

Does anyone recommend any resource for downloading high quality.mp3/FLAC music that I can use put on my personal streaming service. I know I can pirate but I really want to buy it legally in a way artists might benefit. Places like Band camp have very small collections. I know of 7 digital https://uk.7digital.com/ But for some reason "This store is not available for your location"

beatport, beatsource, traxxsource, bandcamp. I think iTune store has 256kb/s AAC wich should be equal or better to high quality mp3. And I believe amazon music is similar.

Amazon Music has 256 kbps VBR MP3s

Re: A personal music streaming server that works

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post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://github.com/koel/koel/issues/1099 Looks like the "sqlite-e2e" is for integration-test only.

But sqlite is the only choice from those options that makes any sense for a personal music server. (I use it in this role, with my own home-brewed media and documents library.)

I have quite a few personal services running at home that use mysql.

Would be lovely if sqlite worked, but why is it the only one that makes any sense?

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