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.

  • Toasticus@piefed.socialEnglish
    1·
    20 hours ago

    I go out to thrift stores, buy CDs and I make a little boat to ship CDs in. I would hope someone just send me a boat back with CDs I’d listen to. To make sure of it, every CD I ship out, has a notecard written about what genre of music I like, what artists I particularly like, what genres I don’t like and what artists I don’t wish to hear.

    This is how I make my trade. I’m a real pirate, arrrr.

  • Scrollone@feddit.itEnglish
    3·
    1 day 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!

  • DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    9·
    2 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

    • TheHooligan95@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      41·
      2 days ago

      Well, it is because firehawk52 is throwing in the towel, that’s why, as he used to be the go to for web dl ing from streaming services

  • printf("%s", name);@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    20·
    3 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.🤷‍♀️

    • BillButter@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
      7·
      3 days ago

      If it works, it works. Don’t fix what ain’t broken.

      When you run into issues of scale, hopefully the ecosystem is a little more forgiving

      • printf("%s", name);@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        2·
        2 days ago

        Yeah, to be fair, I mostly pirate video. Music, I listen to from Tidal through USB Audio Player (Android). I only ever grab audio that’s not available on Tidal.

  • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    4·
    1 day 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
  • Sludge@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    4·
    2 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

  • kbal@fedia.io
    13·
    3 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.

  • basiclemmon98@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    7·
    3 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.

  • Ultima@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    3·
    2 days ago

    I get my music from discord servers and sometimes soulseek if I can’t find a song or album, and then play it using USB Audio Player Pro since I use an external dac. Symfonium is also another great player with a highly customisable interface that I sometimes use

    • shaman1093@lemmy.mlEnglish
      4·
      2 days ago

      I second the Symfonium recommendation - Feishin is a great desktop player as well. Click the now playing album on the bottom left for a full screen mode with visualiser/lyrics/up next screen present alongside the now playing info 👍🏼

    • potustheplant@feddit.nlEnglish
      21·
      2 days ago

      Symfonium is a paid app. I use Tempus (which is free) and while it has fewer features, it’s more than enough for me.

      • Ultima@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        3·
        2 days ago

        It’s so worth it for the price (it was like $1.50 in my region) Tempus looks great, it Reminds me of Oto Music which is also another great free player that has the fastest library scanner I’ve found in any player I’ve tried which is very useful if you have a large music library like I do

        • potustheplant@feddit.nlEnglish
          2·
          2 days ago

          It’s a lot more expensive in Europe, 9EUR. Not saying it’s not worth it, just that I don’t really feel like I need it.

        • Ultima@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          1·
          2 days ago

          Oto music also has a really good music tagger that also lets you edit metadata for entire albums in bulk, which is the only reason I use it for lol

  • 𝚝𝚛𝚔@aussie.zoneEnglish
    2·
    2 days ago

    Lidarr, and YouTube Music with last.fm scrobbling.

    Lidarr monitors my last.fm scrobbles and automatically downloads anything I’ve listened to enough.

    I also manually add stuff to lidarr that I’ve heard on radio stations like 4ZZZ, or as soundtracks to movies and TV shows I’m watching.

    Currently at 2.8TB on my music library.

    I’m pulling from torrent sites as the preference, with Usenet backup. FLAC quality, and CD source. I’ve also ripped all my CDs, and updated Musicbrainz for stuff that didn’t already exist there so it works nicely with lidarr.

    Tried using Soulseek but it’s laughably bad. Wrong tags, gatekeepers who have ludicrous restrictions on their libraries, and most music is just (poorly) downloaded from streaming services anyway.

    I use Plexamp for listening, or YouTube Music. Mostly I’m just downloading it because I know at some point in the future I’m going to crack the sads with paying the price YouTube Music charges. Seems to go up every month. When I get rid of it I want a decent library ready to go, and a nice listening history so the the recommendations aren’t total shite.