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Funkwhale – Decentralized, self-hosted music server

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Post by anderspitman »

Johan-bjareholt wrote: post #293
anderspitman wrote: post #265

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> There is an unofficial mobile client called Otter that makes listening to music on Android very pleasent Is there some reason servers like this require a special client? Can't you just provide URLs to m3u8s which in turn have URLs to mp3s? Is it just that there isn't an agreed-upon protocol for listing directories? Or maybe auth concerns?

And maybe for creating playlists? And maybe for modifying playlists? And maybe for searching for songs/albums/artists? And maybe for modifying metadata? Considering all these features that needs to be supported it makes sense IMO that it's a specific protocol.

Playlists are just m3u8 files, so you just need to support HTTP PUT, yeah? You've got me on search.

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Post by rglullis »

MaKey wrote: post #217
lorenzhs wrote: post #185

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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.

sssh... don't tell anyone about hetzner.

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Post by tegiddrone »

SamBam wrote: post #281
tegiddrone wrote: post #212

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,…

mStream does look very nice and straightforward. Is there any better UI for seeing all your music than what appears to be just a file dialog?

It's pretty file dialog-y utilitarian but you can have it group by album/artist and also has a unified search through the library. I haven't explored its AutoDJ feature.

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Post by pontifier »

tchaffee wrote: post #2

How do musicians get paid on this platform?

People who run servers will probably fall under the Music Modernization Act.

Every DSP (Digital Service Provider) is required to register with the Mechanical Licensing collective, and the administrative fee is $5,000 per year if you fall under the threshold number of streams. If you pass that, then it's $60,000 to unlimited...

Of course you'll have to file monthly reports and pay the royalties due under the blanket license as well.

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Post by JacobSuperslav »

Kaze404 wrote: post #273
BRedSox wrote: post #249

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BitTorrent, yes. YouTube, no. They take down videos with copyrighted material.

So by extension browsers allowing file downloads also falls under that? That's just what BitTorrent is after all.

And knives. They can be used to kill people too.

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Post by ddoeth »

aidenn0 wrote: post #231
davidwparker wrote: post #194

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I use Spotify and have great luck there. Playlists: Discover Weekly tends to result in ~3-5 (new to me) musicians/week that I hadn't heard of that I would actually listen to. That's a pretty high ratio IMO. Release Radar tends to result in ~1 (new to me)/week. Granted, it's supposedly mostly ones I listen to, but still has several I've never heard of. Daily Mix 1-6 are a mixed bag and sometimes result in something ne…

Discover Weekly was rather boring for me. It was about 6 weeks before I heard a song I hadn't heard before and only one musician I hadn't heard before in the 3 months I used it. I had much better success with Pandora when I tried it, but it still wasn't exactly deep cuts.

Maybe that's just because I'm too young, but most of my music discovery since I was 16 maybe was done through spotify, so spotify knows pretty much exactly what music I know and what music I don't know.
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