More than just ‘what app are you using’, but I do want that as well.

I want a good mindset for downloading music that has what I want and at least some of what I’ll probably like.

Currently, partially as a limitation of the app, I have every song in every album that contains something I like. This works well ish for discovery, but I know less than a quarter of my library, no matter how much time I spend listening to new music. This was with Lidar + tubifary (Tidal and Slskd only).

Currently I’m trying Downtify configured with slskd and yt as a backup, but it seems very slow to download and the app itself is very laggy.

  • printf("%s", name);@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    22·
    9 days ago

    I don’t know all this fancy stuff. Like, yesterday, I wanted to listen to the songs from the anime The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya so I grabbed them from nyaa, moved them from the “Downloads” directory to the “Music” directory and then played it with VLC.🤷‍♀️

  • kbal@fedia.io
    14·
    9 days ago

    I download albums (through piracy or not) and add them to my modest mp3 collection the same way I used to buy CDs — once in a while when it seems like a good idea. If there’s an album I don’t think is worth listening to again, I delete it.

  • DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    11·
    8 days ago

    Newly created account account asking where our pirated sources are and asking for quite intimate details

    Interesting

    🤔

    Y’all are way too trusting

  • basiclemmon98@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    7·
    9 days ago

    I open amazon music and copy over all the album and single links from an artist I like to lucida to download them all as flacs, then I use an ffmpeg script to convert them all to 320kb mp3s. I reformat the names and metadata and put them into my music folder.

    I enjoy my music.

  • Marty_TF@lemmy.zipEnglish
    71·
    9 days ago

    lidarr + streamrip (tidal, i have a subscription there, so not free, my point is owning the music offline, dont really mind paying, esp bcs tidal gives a bit more money to musicians than spotify) + navidrome + music assistant

    music assistant also has tidal linked, meaning i have the full catalogue and discovery via streaming.

    if i like a song, i tell streamrip to download the album, put it into navidrome, and music assistant will then actually start using the local version which is cool

    • BillButter@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
      1·
      9 days ago

      I’ve used Tidal Plus lidarr, and that’s probably been my favorite setup. What does Music Assistant and StreamRip add to this stack? I don’t know either of these apps.

      • Marty_TF@lemmy.zipEnglish
        1·
        9 days ago

        streamrip downloads songs from tidal/quobuz/spotify so you have a drm free local copy

        music assistant is a part of home assistant, meaning i integrate my local music library into my smart home with music assistant.

        i also have audiobookshelf (selfhosted audiobooks obv) and nextcloud gpodder (selfhosted podcast subscription and listen history sync) hooked into it, meaning in one app that has access to all speakers in my home and also my smartphone, i can listen to all audio related stuff

        • Marty_TF@lemmy.zipEnglish
          1·
          9 days ago

          this then allows me to do fancy stuff like, when i’m at home and connect my headphones to my phone, it transfers to playback queue from my main speaker setup to my phone, automatically stopping the music there and starting it on my phone, and when i disconnect my hradphones when at home, it transfers iz back and i can continuously listen to one queue on mutliple devices.

    • Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      1·
      9 days ago

      Same setup. I did “make” a crappy bridge between Lidarr and Streamrip to search and download from my Qobuz subscription.

  • SpicySquid@lemmy.mlEnglish
    5·
    9 days ago

    I’m still very much in the process of finding what will work for me. Music Assistant to somewhat merge my YT Music and my locally stored files in one workflow. Last.fm and Listenbrainz scrobbling for generating recommendations for me. Maybe in a while I’ll feel like I don’t want YTM anymore, but right now I still find it hard to leave it fully. Lidarr and Tubifarry are also part of my stack.

    On ‘good mindset’: I’m afraid that’s still something that needs attention, and I hope to find it with what I currently use as I’m still too comfortable streaming YTM.

  • Scrollone@feddit.itEnglish
    5·
    8 days ago

    I pay for Spotify, but since some of my favourite songs are not available anymore (they’re greyed out, as if they lost the rights) I decided I won’t renew. Back to piracy!

  • Sludge@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    4·
    9 days ago

    Dropped needle (newer version of musicseerr) plugged into lidarr and slsk. Using musicbrainz. A few good indexers/sources on the back end set to flac and high quality versions for the profile. Relatively fast and good coverage overall. Slsk helps to fill in the gaps

  • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    4·
    8 days ago

    Acquisation:

    • Buy CD and then rip with ExactAudioCopy
    • Buy media from various sellers like Bandcamp, ototoy, Amazon Music, etc. (basically the official vendor that sells the artists music)
    • Acquire FLAC or MP3 through various means lile nyaa, slskd, indexer, DDL

    Manage:

    • Lidarr. If not available in Lidarr, create entry in musicbrainz, wait 7 days then import

    Listen:

    • Jellyfin
    • Symfonium