Jellyfin as a Spotify alternative

Post by bdangubic » Sun, Apr 20, 2025, 5:14 PM UTC

notnullorvoid wrote: post #490

armSixtyFour wrote: post #149

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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…

Yeah I have no idea why music recommendation algorithms have gotten so bad. Rdio had the pinnacle of music recommendations in 2013. I wonder what happened to that tech after they shut down in 2015, and why no one has been able to reproduce it.

Post by MrDrMcCoy » Mon, Apr 21, 2025, 3:38 PM UTC

bane wrote: post #483

MrDrMcCoy wrote: post #475

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https://docs.unraid.net/unraid-os/overview/nas/ Having parity on a one or more separate disks is one of the hallmarks of RAID4, and as such the comparison conceptually makes sense even if it's not literally RAID4. The actual state of their data protection is actually worse due to data not being striped across the data drives, reducing I/O, causing balancing issues, limiting large file sizes, and increasing risk of da…

The sum of your arguments are basically "unraid doesn't do a particular thing I like using Cli tools" then make a bunch of self contradictory claims of what those things are. Then you double down in your made up arguments. This is just bad faith trolling behavior unwelcome here on HN. I'm flagging you both.

Post by DrSiemer » Tue, Apr 22, 2025, 5:36 AM UTC

BrandoElFollito wrote: post #209

DrSiemer wrote: post #205

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Same here, plus I can finally find related songs in languages I cannot read! At least a fifth of my favorite songs look like cryptic gibberish to me, that would be nearly impossible to find as a download... I'm firmly vendor locked for that reason alone. I do make regular exports, just in case my Spotify account ever disappears for whatever reason. That data is too valuable to risk losing it.

What do you export from Spotify?

Post by stuaxo » Thu, Apr 24, 2025, 9:10 AM UTC

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…