I still stream. But I have my own stream service with jellyfin.
this post was submitted on 23 May 2025
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I have been debating to go back to piracy for music but i still support my favourite artists and now gonna look back into whats out there. Enjoy your offline music. Edit fixed spelling of music
Just remember to pay forward. Go to local music shows, buy merch from the bands you like
I just canceled Tidal and set up a Navidrome server, and I've probably spent more on bandcamp and such lately than 2 years of that subscription.
So I can't say I saved anything cost-wise, but having more control over my library is absolutely worth it. Realistically a single direct album purchase goes much further than streaming the same album anyway.
I hate how Navidrome won’t just take a folder as an album and forces you to get all the data right or else
MP3 metadata management has always been a pain in the ass. I can suggest Picard and Beets as useful tools, but there will always be some effort required to maintain properly
Yeah it's a bit annoying, I wish it could just edit metadata directly instead of having to go through something like beets or picard
Sends me back to Jellyfin every time
And dont feel bad for random rights holders of dead musicians or musicians who are already filthy rich. If your music taste is limited to taylor swift and some up and coming indie artist make sure the whole budget goes to that up and coming artist...
Exactly my thoughts. Bandcamp is my goto for independent artists and labels.
I've ended up with a pretty decent vinyl collection doing this. A lot of artists sell record releases on their merch store.
I haven't added much to my record shelf over the past few years, but I did the same while shifting to my own hosted library and buying what I can to support
Just give them cash money if you want to support. Merch is just trash generating activity
I know it's ownership status is murky at present, but I still mark BandCamp Fridays in my calendar. Being sure to download anything I buy straight onto the NAS
Don't forget that yt-dlp is not only for YouTube, it supports many other sites as well.
My strategy is to grab 120k versions of music I want right now, using yt-dlp with Bandcamp. Then, when BC does their Bandcamp Fridays, I buy as many of the 320k versions that I can afford.
Also, check out https://squid.wtf/ if you want higher quality and better selection. I have pretty good luck with the Qobuz servers when I can't find something on BC.
As others said, don't forget that the purpose of all this is to fuck the corporations, not the artists.
My wife occasionally sends me TikTok videos she finds interesting. I don't have the app installed because I can't be trusted to not end up scrolling for hours, and TikTok's website is pure dog shit. Because they want you using the app.
Anyway, turns out yt-dlp works perfectly with TikTok 👍🏽
Oh man, I had no idea! I don't have tiktok so sometimes I'm not paying attention and click a link somebody sends me and it just goes to some broken page because my phone can't handle the intent...
I'll have to fix this with Tasker and Termux
I had no idea about the bandcamp Fridays thing, definitely noting that for later
Soulseek is nice. Community of people sharing their music libraries with each other.
Somehow it's the only old-school P2P network that's not only survived, but still thrives even today. So many rare songs on there. It turned 24 years old last month. All the others from the same era (like Napster, Kazaa, Limewire, etc) are long gone. ed2k is still around but mostly dead.
The chat rooms are also old-school unmoderated chat rooms, so expect the worst of humanity to be in there.
If you have a home server, slskd is great. It's an alternate Soulseek app that's a server with a web UI.
Slskd was such a find for me. Paired with beets it's been my favourite storage/sorting method.
there is dc++ network, it is not much alive but can be revived if needed ;0]
When I was listening to obscure krautrock bands which were nowhere to be found on Spotify or YT Music, Soulseek came to rescue. Also, funnily, it is easier to get flac from there than 320kbps mp3 of various albums. The former is more ubiquitous there.
In my experience in the cesspool of the chat lobbies it’s mostly anti-lgbt neo-nazis but they do have decent music.
The chat is useless most of the times. The users troll each other and the unmoderated nature means racism is quite common as well. That being said, there are the odd decent folks as well. I had a decent conversation with a guy once there and he even donated 5 days of Soulseek privileges to me; sadly these type of conversations are forgotten in the cesspool that is the chatroom there.
What the heck is soulseek privileged? Never seen that in my interface.
Good point :)
If one donates to Soulseek( on their official website a certain amount), they get privileges. If you have privileges, then your downloads will be queued ahead of other users (basically you side step a long queue for downloading).
I use Nicotine, and when I open the client, it shows for a couple of seconds at the bottom/tray No active Soulseek privileges before vanishing. That's the only clue.
In practise, my downloads usually go through normally. The 5 days I had privileges I honestly didn't notice much difference. Some users have an automated script that crawls one's folder whenever you download from them, so as long as one has decent amount of shares, it's alright. (I only have shared 40 odd gigs but it's decent enough).
Lol, I hear ya.
Thanks for the Android app recommendation.
Welcome to the club chap!
Being doing half online and half offline, but mostly offline! I also own vinyls and CD's.
It's sadly pretty hit or miss if you're behind a VPN. Same for ytdlp tho.
You are damn right. I totally forgot vimusic was having issues and was no longer maintained, so I switched to a fork named ViTune, which is not without it's flaws, but works pretty nice overall
RiMusic is another fork. I love its UI https://github.com/fast4x/RiMusic
RiMusic was discontinued in March.
I use IBroadcast.com. It allows you to upload your songs and hear them from the cloud. It has some premium features but with the free plan I'd say it's more that ok!