So, how do you get music for your self-hosted server?

https://listen-to-euterpe.eu/blog/how-to-get-music-for-self-hosted/

by iron4o • 2 years ago

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JohnFen• 2 years ago

I get the music for my server mostly by buying CDs and buying from Bandcamp.

dissahc• 2 years ago

hey, i might have a good solution... i wrote https://github.com/waveplate/spotifm which allows you to stream spotify over icecast2 and control the playblack with a REST API

longitudinal93• 2 years ago

If you have a Deezer account you can use download lossless FLACs using various free apps.

mindslight• 2 years ago

Pirate FLACs, go to shows, buy merch. You don't need to support the parasitic music distribution industry in order to support the bands you love.

hammyhavoc2• 2 years ago

All very well saying this, but supporting bands that don't tour anymore due to the economic difficulty of it, UK venues closing, bands being in other countries et cetera makes this quite hard.

I would love to go to Augusta Camp in Japan and see COIL live. Always wanted to. Likelihood? Sadly, quite low with my health.

toastercat• 2 years ago

You could still buy merch. I like buying vinyl and displaying it on my wall, personally.

greenie_beans• 2 years ago

is it possible to slurp music playing through your spotify account?

tacticalturtle• 2 years ago

For stuff that’s a decade or more old, you can find pretty much anything on CD on eBay for $3.

yownie• 2 years ago

Youtube downloader rips / encodes, picard for tagging/id

_spduchamp• 2 years ago

Somewhat related question... I bought a used hard drive from a thrift store. It has a massive and very eclectic collection of music on it, but the file names and ID3 tags are a bit of a mess. Any recommendation on a good way to clean all that up? The errors also include some band name misspelled, etc.

MrDrMcCoy• 2 years ago

This should help substantially: https://picard.musicbrainz.org/

boatl• 2 years ago

I personally use soulseek and I share everything I download and rip myself

kderbyma• 2 years ago

rip it from CDs to FLAC, synching it to my media server and then clean up the local once I confirm and then play it through ultrasonic

So, how do you get music for your self-hosted server?

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