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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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Post by notarealllama »

noyesno wrote: post #27
max_ wrote: 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"

Qobuz has an extensive online shop for music.

True, but they are pricey ($25+ USD for an album), and force you to choose between hi-res (24 bit FLAC) and CD quality, instead of purchasing rights to a song and offering MP3 as well.

I have an extensive MP3 collection, favorite albums I try to keep FLAC, while others I'm fine with MP3/320 or for stuff I collect but don't listen to all the time, VBR 256 is fine to keep size small.

Re: A personal music streaming server that works

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Post by coremoff »

minhdanh72 wrote: post #2

I wish I could have such app to stream music from my NAS. This is very nice though!

depending on your NAS, you might be able to run [0] Logitech Media Server; I still have it running on mine, and use it occasionally - I use it particularly for "play random album" which I have never seen elsewhere, and is great if you have a large collection of ripped music.

It also runs fine on an rPi.

[0] https://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.php/Logitech_Media_Server

Re: A personal music streaming server that works

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Post by pacifika »

lupusreal wrote: post #28
max_ wrote: 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"

To benefit the artist its usually better to pirate the music and buy some merch.

Interesting, do you have a source for this?

Re: A personal music streaming server that works

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Post by Semaphor »

max_ wrote: 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"

It probably depends on the genre, for metal, almost everything is on bandcamp. The main exceptions are some very old, some very poppy nuclear blast/napalm record stuff, or generally Japanese bands which mostly seem to not care about non-Japanese fans in general.

I buy about 1-2 albums a week from bandcamp.

Re: A personal music streaming server that works

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Post by Mashimo »

Semaphor wrote: post #39
Mashimo wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Ah, good to know. Thanks.

Re: A personal music streaming server that works

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Post by conradfr »

max_ wrote: 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"

Have you done an abx test on what you would consider bad mp3 from a "regular" store and the flac version?

Re: A personal music streaming server that works

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Post by shiroiushi »

pacifika wrote: post #43
lupusreal wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To benefit the artist its usually better to pirate the music and buy some merch.

Interesting, do you have a source for this?

It depends on the artist and their contracts of course, but for normal (non-indie) artists with labels, this is well-known and you can read all about it all over the internet.

Generally, most bands make most of their money from touring, both from ticket sales and especially from merchandise (T-shirts etc.). They don't normally make much from CDs, and very little from streaming, that mostly goes to the label.

So if you really want to support an artist, go to their concert and buy a t-shirt. If a concert isn't convenient, you can probably buy a t-shirt from their website. This will do a lot more for their personal finances than worrying about copyrights.

Personally, though, I do like to buy CDs of artists I follow, and I normally rip my music in FLAC from those. A lot of the CDs these days are quite nice, with cool books sometimes.

Re: A personal music streaming server that works

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Post by lupusreal »

Mashimo wrote: post #40
lupusreal wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

Installing/maintaining mysql or the others is a pain in the ass relative to sqlite (essentially no cost at all). For a personal media library, all write operations are trivially serializable. Sqlite DBs are the easiest to copy to new machines when you upgrade hardware.

Re: A personal music streaming server that works

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Post by Mashimo »

lupusreal wrote: post #49
Mashimo wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

Installing/maintaining mysql or the others is a pain in the ass relative to sqlite (essentially no cost at all). For a personal media library, all write operations are trivially serializable. Sqlite DBs are the easiest to copy to new machines when you upgrade hardware.

> Installing/maintaining mysql or the others is a pain in the ass

Koel provides a docker-compose file for them, should make it trivial to spin it up.

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