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Re: Funkwhale – Decentralized, self-hosted music server

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Post by [deleted] »

Findeton wrote: post #105
dvno42 wrote: post #19

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 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 spo…

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Re: Funkwhale – Decentralized, self-hosted music server

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Post by IndySun »

nobody9999 wrote: post #171
IndySun wrote: post #129

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Idols? Famous guitarists that have bubbled under your nose? What about new guitarists?

>Idols? Famous guitarists that have bubbled under your nose? What about new guitarists? What about them? If I purchase music, it's because I want to listen to that music. Whether that's Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, Lari Basilio, Nick Johnston or anyone else, what business is it of yours (or anyone else, for that matter) how or where I listen to the music that I've purchased? This is the first I'm hearing about Funk Wh…

Glad to hear it.

Absolutely not saying everyone will use it in a way that devalues creativity as a living, you rightly used the word 'seems'.

The interconnectedness of digital content ultimately stifles competition. It means less chance of you ever hearing the next Jimi Hendrix. Given there are about 7 billion people and there's only been one Jimi convinces me this is true. Of course there have been, and are, many Jimis, but you'll likely never get to appreciate them. Maybe you're ok with just Jimi and all the stuff already out there. If so, maybe music isn't so important to you.

You have the right attitude to the software. I don't want to suggest an alt here. I'm talking more broadly. I would ask you to think about this from the reverse perspective, and if it is whatever it is you do to make a living could be made once, and distributed for free to the effect you couldn't do it anymore - is the point.

Re: Funkwhale – Decentralized, self-hosted music server

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Post by choward »

pessimizer wrote: post #106
tchaffee wrote: post #96

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If I am only sharing with my family, then fine. But it looks like this software allows you to create a pod and share with whoever you invite. Which my purchase doesn't cover, right?

Did your purchase cover your family? Why should your spouse and children be allowed to listen to music licensed to you?

Do you remember CDs, cassettes, records, etc.? Is it illegal to let family listen to those?

Re: Funkwhale – Decentralized, self-hosted music server

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Post by Lambdanaut »

IndySun wrote: post #148
StavrosK wrote: post #131

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It congealed from an amorphous mass of nutrients in the bowels of the earth. What does it matter where it came from? Stealing deprives the owner of their good, copyright infringement does not, therefore they are not equal.

Sure. Your remarks only prove my point. But I am a realist. And I wouldn't keep focusing on music. It's an easy target. Audio happens to be my thing but I'm concerned at the cavalier attitude and on a broader level. Let's for one minute, expand the remit. It's not funkwhale, it's carwhale, foodwhale, healthwhale. Keep going. Keep thinking. If all we're doing is not creating anew, but instead forging special keys that…

> it's carwhale, foodwhale, healthwhale. Keep going. Keep thinking.

You're describing a post-scarcity utopia where we can spend our creative energy where we want and not be tied down to jobs that we hate in order to pay the bills.

Yes, I would very much like that for everyone. Thank you for bringing this topic up. Let it come.

Re: Funkwhale – Decentralized, self-hosted music server

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Post by lorenzhs »

rmellow wrote: post #143
ubercow13 wrote: post #126

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So don't host it on a cloud provider. You can host it from home, or somewhere else. For example I rent a cheap dedicated server with a 1TB hard drive and unmetered 1Gb bandwidth, for £8 a month, which would work great for something like this and there is no chance of unexpected costs.

I'm looking for something similar (large storage, low bandwidth, hopefully with a VPS). Can you point me to the provider?

OVH's kimsufi series (https://www.kimsufi.com/) has very cheap dedicated servers. I have a KS-2 and am quite happy with it. The servers are very low-end and have old hardware, though. Not a problem for me but you should be aware of it.

Re: Funkwhale – Decentralized, self-hosted music server

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Post by blackflame7000 »

dusted wrote: post #180

I've just used a samba share for the past.. 20? years, it's worked great always.. On the desktops, it's mounted with cifs, on the phone I access it via openvpn and play music from it via vlc, on the media-center, it's also just mounted with cifs.

On the web it’s a target of ransomware via usage of the eternal blue exploit pkg

Re: Funkwhale – Decentralized, self-hosted music server

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Post by dspillett »

rmellow wrote: post #143
ubercow13 wrote: post #126

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So don't host it on a cloud provider. You can host it from home, or somewhere else. For example I rent a cheap dedicated server with a 1TB hard drive and unmetered 1Gb bandwidth, for £8 a month, which would work great for something like this and there is no chance of unexpected costs.

I'm looking for something similar (large storage, low bandwidth, hopefully with a VPS). Can you point me to the provider?

https://www.serverhunter.com/ and https://en.metadedi.net/ are useful resources for that. Though search for more information before signing up for anything expensive and/or long term as there are some truly crap hosts out there. There are some pretty good budget hosts in the mix though.

If you can wait until the end of the month you might find black friday offers from some providers. They usually get discussed in places like https://www.lowendtalk.com/ (I'm not sure how quickly such short term offers are reflected on the above server search sites, if at all). Again, do research on the hosts you chose lest you buy a lemon.

Re: Funkwhale – Decentralized, self-hosted music server

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Post by riedel »

greggman3 wrote: post #118
dvno42 wrote: post #19

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.…

Which 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.

I think it depends in personal taste. Spotify and amazon give me mostly boring mainstream ... . The only discovery algorithm i keep enjoying is pandora. due to semi effective geoblocking in my vountry, I, however , hesitate to go for the ad-free subscription.
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