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For years, I relied on Spotify like millions of others. The convenience was undeniable stream anything, anywhere, discover new music through algorithms, and share playlists with friends. But over time, several issues became impossible to ignore: artists getting paid fractions of pennies per stream, fake Artists and ghost Tracks, AI music and impersonation, creepy age verification complicity and the fact that despite paying monthly, I never actually owned anything. So I decided to take back control of my music experience. Here’s how I built my own self-hosted music streaming setup that gives me everything Spotify offered and more.

  • BrikoX@lemmy.zipOPMEnglish
    3·
    13 hours ago

    <…> at one point the author says he uses Sabnzbd to download from Bandcamp.

    He does? I can’t find that reference.

    • kaidenshi@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      11 hours ago

      I could swear I read it exactly that way, but looking back I don’t see it, perhaps I inferred it from this:

      My setup uses sabnzbd integrated with Lidarr for handling downloads of content I’ve purchased.

      To be clear, Lidarr/Sabnzbd can ONLY download from Usenet, which (as far as I know) is not an authorized download channel for any legally purchased media. I get what he’s saying, that he buys the music from a legit source and then downloads it from Usenet for simplicity and automation’s sake (which is exactly what I do as well), but the inference appeared to be that he was somehow pointing Lidarr/Sabnzbd at Bandcamp directly.