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Funkwhale – Decentralized, self-hosted music server

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Re: Funkwhale – Decentralized, self-hosted music server

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Post by avinassh »

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…

> Where can I donate some money?

https://funkwhale.audio/support-us/

(not affiliated with funkwhale, just found the link from their site)

Re: Funkwhale – Decentralized, self-hosted music server

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Post by tegiddrone »

This looks nice! I am really interested in this space because I have a long build collection of mp3s and I'm not as interested in yielding to Spotify but I'm not always at the same computer or building for the accessibility.

Thus far I've been using mStream https://mstream.io/ with decent success. You can federate collections with your friends. My tries with NFS or SSHFS doesn't work reliably on windows/mobile hosts, especially across the (mobile) internet.

I know there is at least a few other projects in this space, some mentioned in the comments (Ampache.)

Re: Funkwhale – Decentralized, self-hosted music server

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Post by greggman3 »

chrisweekly wrote: post #161
greggman3 wrote: post #118

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Spotify 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.

Sorry 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.

Re: Funkwhale – Decentralized, self-hosted music server

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Post by tomjen3 »

Lambdanaut wrote: post #178
keyle wrote: post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Grooveshark was awesome! From the brand, the UI, the service. RIP Grooveshark.

They really were the best, and they had obscure music that I would have never expected they'd have. Old SNES game OST like the super mario rpg soundtrack was there. It felt like if I could think it, I could find it. Ad-free and flawless free experience. Truly a gem.

Indeed. I was a paid user, hoping for the site to get some legitimacy.

Unfortunately we need to change the copyright system for music to require a uniform fee only if we ever want to see another groveshark.

Re: Funkwhale – Decentralized, self-hosted music server

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Post by MaKey »

lorenzhs wrote: post #185
rmellow wrote: post #143

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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.

I think Hetzner's Server auction (https://www.hetzner.com/sb) has better offers if you can wait a bit for a good deal and you're looking for a little bit more performance. A while ago I saw an i7 4770 with 32 GB RAM and 2x 2TB HDD for ~26€. Their servers also come with an unmetered 1 GBit connection instead of just 100 MBit.

Re: Funkwhale – Decentralized, self-hosted music server

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Post by greggman3 »

crispyambulance wrote: post #172
greggman3 wrote: post #118

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

> Which music service's discovery features actually work? It depends on what you mean by "work". Discovery capabilities have certainly gotten vastly better. 10+ years ago, the only decent one was the now (effectively) defunct Last.fm. These days, they're all pretty good. Spotify, pandora, google music, and now youtube music will do a good job of giving you recommendations based strictly on what you've been cue-ing up…

> These days, they're all pretty good

Your experience is vastly different than mine. Youtube music seems to be recommending nothing but what's popular. Justin Bieber is being recommending to me. I've never listed to him or anything remotely related.

No good recommendations on any of the others.

Maybe you have a different definition of "good"

Good to me means "sounds similar and in the same genre as what I'm currently listening to". It does not mean "people who liked this song also liked that song"

Re: Funkwhale – Decentralized, self-hosted music server

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Post by alias_neo »

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.

GPM worked very well for me and I've used it since the beginning; it was great for new releases and finding new music I like. I ditched it recently due to the YouTube music thing and moved to Spotify. I find im always listening to the same playlist because I just can't find anything I want to listen to on Spotify unless I search explicitly.

Re: Funkwhale – Decentralized, self-hosted music server

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Post by dbrgn »

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…

> 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!)

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