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[–] 58 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (18 children)

Back to Piracy! ✊🏴‍☠️

Really though? It isn't necessary. Use Bandcamp, you probably have half your artists covered. The rest - one of those Spotify alternatives: Tidal? Qobuz?

Personally I do selfhost btw. Jellyfin, though I heard of a better alternative specifically for music recently - and forgot the name again 😥 Something lowercase, like a verb... "normalize" or some such. Navidrome! Thanks @0konomiyaki@aussie.zone

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Navidrome maybe? But I use jellyfin + symfonium myself. All my music is either bandcamp or used CDs. Started collecting music late last year and my entire collection is legally sourced now. No piracy required. Hardest part was starting very small and building the collection over time.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Yes! Navidrome!

    used CDs

    I get them dirt cheap or completely for free. It's actually reverse piracy (no I'm not serious) since no doubt the previous owners ripped everything.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Thanks for recommending Navidrome. It looks really interesting.

    I was using Spotify, but switched to Spotube. After Spotube was crippled, I was kind of aimless. I really liked having my music available on my cellphone and desktop. It looks like Navidrome will fill the gap perfectly.

    You'd mentioned ripping CDs. Would you have some software, you'd recommend (Windows or Linux)? Preferably in FLAC.

    I haven't looked at ripping software in a few years, but it was kind of tedious to set up and very manual to get the proper metadata, genres, and cover art. I've got a hundred CDs and that'll take awhile....

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago

    more like 3% bandcamp availability. i know this is a linux/trans/selfhost/overpayeddev/westeu/foss echochamber, but im not wasting electricity and money on selfhost if a 1tb sd card in my phone can do the same thing offline.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I would suggest Qobuz (if available) or Tidal. Deezer's CEO is a hard-core religious nutjob who finances anti-trans orgs and sexual conversion "therapies".

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (1 child)

    Sorry for replying to an old comment, but do you have some source to support this? I am searching online but finding nothing :(

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    I'll be honest with you - I read that from someone else either here or on Reddit (and they provided some links that looked legit), but I also can't find it anymore. Maybe it was about the previous CEO, the original founder? Not sure, so you can ignore that whole part when choosing a streaming service.

    I'd still pick Qobuz because of how much more they pay artists, though.

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