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Jellyfin as a Spotify alternative

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Re: Jellyfin as a Spotify alternative

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Post by godelski »

thaumasiotes wrote: post #331
godelski wrote: post #254

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DNS blockers aren't good enough to block all ads. Especially YouTube. Plus, many browsers will ignore DNS without configuration and same for phone apps. While this can be fine for me it's not for everyone else in my family nor guests. And that's before we talk about Apple... If anyone has a solution I'd love to learn.

Ublock Origin is sufficient to block all ads on youtube.

You're misunderstanding the problem.

We were talking DNS blockers. The context matters. I already use ublock but I can't do ublock on my pihole. I can't do it on an iPhone (I can use orion browser but YouTube quality is low). I can't do it on my TV. I can't do it on my friends computer that visits my house. And so on. I appreciate you trying to help but you're misunderstanding the problem and honestly I don't know how someone could be on HN and not know about ublock.

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Post by dharmab »

russelg wrote: post #124
smj-edison wrote: post #103

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What do you do for backups? I'm just setting up an Emby instance with a 4 TB hard drive attached, but I'm worried it'll fail and take everything with it.

Is there really a point in backing up media? Unless you've ripped it yourself, I'm sure anything you have is easily obtainable again.

Another one I realized - content is often edited in later versions. Two examples in my collection are the theatrical vs current versions of the Star Wars trilogy, and Top Gear, which had the original licensed music replaced by worse generic music in newer releases.

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dewey wrote: post #202
tough wrote: post #88

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Please don't post AI replies.

it's a factual thing I learned after following the comment threads and asking the AI about it, it does link to the source article.

Why is this bad?

I will, im just wondering, would only the link to the source article been better/acceptable here?

I dont' get the hate for AI replies if they're on topic and generated by a human tbh, but ill respect it since its not first time seeing this i guess

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Post by mystifyingpoi »

sussmannbaka wrote: post #306
mystifyingpoi wrote: post #283

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You can give them even more by skipping the silly part of buying a song you'll never listen to on the platform which takes majority of that money, and just transfer them $1 by paypal or whatever they like to use.

yeah I’ll skip that part and then spend the next 2 hours to find the payment details of my favorite band, sure

I know you are hyperbolic, but finding the band on Facebook and sending a quick message takes a minute max? Especially for your "favorite band". I always deter people from buying CDs of local bands, the band will see a tiny fraction of that price in their pockets. Just walk up to the bandleader after concert and give them $5.

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Post by lolive »

conradfr wrote: post #330
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It's also great sometimes to discover great music from genre you usually don't like, or... just be exposed to songs you don't like. This is what helps building a musical culture. Please allow me to recommend FIP, as a human (it's a classic here but there's no such thing as recommending too much FIP) : https://www.radiofrance.fr/fip

Radio Paradise is a great alternative to FIP. https://radioparadise.com

Both are classics. I like SomaFM-GrooveSalad too. Oh and BBC6, or course. [The podcast of Guy Garvey is an absolut must, in my sunday schedule]

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Post by lolive »

conradfr wrote: post #327
lolive wrote: post #178

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Spotify « radio » is the best reason to listen to real radios ! [honestly the DJs on most of the radios I listen to are insanely skilled !] Btw, is there somewhere a search engine to know when a given [set of] track was played where, in the internet radio world?

https://onlineradiobox.com has the data but doesn't search on it it seems. Disclaimer I make https://www.radio-addict.com but only retrieve the played song data on demand (never tried to probe all 80k+ radio streams at the same time on my small server, could be fun), but searching on it could be a new feature (it's stored in Elixir genservers :D)

Wasn't TuneIn providing this search feature before?

Re: Jellyfin as a Spotify alternative

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Post by lolive »

conradfr wrote: post #327
lolive wrote: post #178

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Spotify « radio » is the best reason to listen to real radios ! [honestly the DJs on most of the radios I listen to are insanely skilled !] Btw, is there somewhere a search engine to know when a given [set of] track was played where, in the internet radio world?

https://onlineradiobox.com has the data but doesn't search on it it seems. Disclaimer I make https://www.radio-addict.com but only retrieve the played song data on demand (never tried to probe all 80k+ radio streams at the same time on my small server, could be fun), but searching on it could be a new feature (it's stored in Elixir genservers :D)

"Listen to a random radio" is the summum of serendipity, man ! #kudos

Re: Jellyfin as a Spotify alternative

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Post by mr_coleman »

When it comes to self hosting, Jellyfin is really not a Spotify replacement. There are better, more purpose driven application. A good example is Navidrome. It is a less featureful Spotify clone but it has more functionality than Jellyfin.

I respect the author's self hosted journey and encourage everyone to go down that path.

Re: Jellyfin as a Spotify alternative

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Post by madmountaingoat »

armSixtyFour wrote: post #149
dankwizard wrote: post #95

This article fails to mention the absolute butchering of features that takes place moving from a typical music streaming subscription to a self hosted Jellyfin library. A large part of my listening on YouTube Music is going to a particular song or band I like and clicking "Radio", which generates a playlist of similar sounding songs. You can then fine tune it with a filter i.e "Popular songs, deep cuts" or specific e…

I would have agreed with you 3 years ago. But now not so much. Spotify "Radio" feature just tends to want to give me music I've already listened to over new music. Whatever algorithm they are using has waaaay overfit to what I have already liked. There used to be curated playlists done by humans, now almost everything is "made for you by Spotify" playlists which, have the exact same issue as the radio stations, sudde…

Spotify has not viewed itself as a music company for longer than that. It's a platform for audio. And, while there are still music first people at the company, they are not in the power positions that they used to be.

The transition didn't start when they laid off Glenn MacDonald, but that sort of cemented it. They had already gutted curation before that and by this time you were far more likely to find people talking about AI in the halls than music. If you've never heard of Glenn, check out his book: "You Have Not Heard Your Favorite Song: How Streaming Changes Music." Or his old online projects at https://everynoise.com/.

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