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Was testing out Tidal in order to rid myself further of any Google services. I keep on going back to Youtube Music because they allow me upload my Bandcamp purchases and rips of my own collection.

Unfortunately Tidal is as annoying as Spotify and YTM. They all stop their genre separation at "Metal". Thanks for recommending me Linkin Park, Rammstein and Disturbed when I already told you which Black and Death Metal artists I'm into. Kinda surprised they aren't pushing Metallica down my throat as well, while they're at it.

The target audience of all these is obviously the typical consumer of mainstream music.

I guess I'll just look for self-hosting approaches.

And this will be the last negative post for today.

How do you listen to your music? Any ideas for selfhosting with a decent Android app?

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Sovereign Being 1y ago

I use Spotify for now, but I have tried navidrome in the past which seemed pretty good.

https://www.navidrome.org/

HERMETICVM 1y ago

What was your favorite client?

Sovereign Being 1y ago

Symfonium

HERMETICVM 1y ago

looks dope btw, thanks for recommending.

Dissident Sound 1y ago

Spotify *IS* actually pushing Metallica on me. Granted i did listen to Metallica 30 years ago when i was a kid and Metallica was still cool. But they are trying to make me listen to CURRENT Metallica ( how are they even still alive ? ) on current me.

Dissident Sound 1y ago

i have Spotify Premium ( unlimited listening without ads )

the correct way to use Spotify is to search using keywords like "experimental" and then select "playlists" from the results.

this completely bypasses Spotify algorithm and simply allows you to listen to playlists manually created by other users.

you can try googling the names of some obscure genres - that will help you use the optimum search keywords.

personally i like new music so when i look at playlists i immediately discard any that weren't updated recently ( you can see the date every track was added to the playlist ) and then i also look for playlists in which the "custom" track order has recently added tracks near the top.

otherwise i will sometimes sort the tracks by date ordered - the problem with that is usually when people create playlists they start with best tracks so custom order is generally preferred.

HERMETICVM 1y ago

Testing out Navidrome with Symfonium for Android.

I think I can live with this. Though I've already seen some broken ID3 tags despite having had Picard do it's thing on my local library already.

HERMETICVM 1y ago

Damn, this is nice. Support for Sonos, Chromecast. Next I'll find out that I could hypothetically convert everything to 432hz upon playback.

HERMETICVM 1y ago

Tagging is such a mess. 🥺

HERMETICVM 1y ago

This won't be fun.

https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/1a5cff5118d071a2c5d46534733abb9f3dcdfc41b24db0132fc20dbf01c75f78/91a3bac2b9e80421d9d609d758143e76cca45cd4898f650c7b1a964da5877b85.webp

HERMETICVM 1y ago

I can't believe Picard actually did a full run on that directory of mine. This is suspicious.

Perhaps it stumbled over the directory complexity because I just feed it the raw output from Google's Takeout? Would explain the missing tracks in various albums as well. Doesn't look like incomplete ID3 tags.

HERMETICVM 1y ago

It is remarkable how low latency the Sonos connection via UPnP is. None of the Sonos apps have had such an instant connection. Impressive.

Their latest trainwreck rewrite can't even connect to my rooms in 50% of all cases.