5 years ago I got lazy and started using Spotify for music which is about the time Sharethreads really started to disappear entirely from here and as a result I got locked into it. I'd like to rectify my mistake, start buying a lot of albums I like and share them on here (along with old shares I really enjoyed) to try to rebuild a community but I'm unsure how the music ecosystem has evolved since then.It seems like iTunes+Bandcamp is the best combo for buying digital albums?Is jetAudio+ still the best app for offline listening?Is there anything else I need to think about?What I partly miss is getting exposed to music from different tastes without relying on an algorithm to tell me what to like and even coming across classic albums you can easily find elsewhere but never otherwise think to listen to.
Also yes:>paying for musicBecause I'm a sad middle-aged man now.
bandcamp or direct from artist/label is the best way to buy if you want to support the artist. second to that, yeah, anywhere I guess. even a sale on iTunes or amazon or wherever is going to give them more income than a thousand streams of their stuff on spotify>jetAudionever heard of it. I use foobar on my desktop and musicolet on my phone, they both do everything I want>buying a lot of albums I like and share them on heresharethreads are dead, seriously. whenever theyre attempted these days they die with few or no responses
>>128223149Spotify is fine for sampling new music for free, but it is NOT an adequate replacement for managing your own digital music library. The main reason is because Spotify does not let you choose between different releases of any given album. For any album recorded before the 1990s, Spotify ONLY offers more recent brickwalled loudness war remastered editions that compress all dynamic range out of the original recordings. And up until last month they didn’t even have a lossless option.If you give half a shit about the music you listen to, you need to consider the source. You can find hi res FLAC files ripped from pre-loudness war pressings on slsk if you know how to search properly and identify transcodes, or you could just buy specific CD pressings, rip them yourself, and resell the discs as soon as you rip them.There’s no point in listening to physical media itself unless you’re a rich boomer with a $125k system listening to music on SACD, Blu-Ray, or old vinyl pressed before digital mastering became the norm ~1988. If you pay a monthly premium to rent access to a catalog of mp3 files sourced from bad masters, then you’re just a tool.
self host if you have decent internet. took about an hour to get the following set up on an old rpi4 i had collecting dust ->navidrome>slskd>beets for tagging/organization>tailscale for quick and ez vpn>amperfy client on my phone, pointed at hosted directoryi can download shit to the storage attached on my server from a browser on my phone, and i set up a scheduled job on my server to run the files downloaded through beets to tag files and move them to the directory that is hosted.
>jetAudio>musicoletBoth seem to be closed source.Is there any open source player for Android that people recommend? I'm also currently a Spotifag but not everything is on there.
>>128223149I'm also in the process of getting rid of spotify. The price increases and the ever-looming threat of music being removed has made me start switching over to CDs which are pretty plentiful and cheap. I just rip those and store the files on my server. Anything I can't purchase on CD i buy off Bandcamp. As for playing, I just load the music onto my phone and listen that way or listen to the CD/file directly off of my computer. I never really felt the need to setup a self-hosted streaming service with a VPN. As for music that I can't purchase a CD or digital file of, I haven't figured a solution to that except for the obvious.>What I partly miss is getting exposed to music from different tastes without relying on an algorithm to tell me what to like and even coming across classic albums you can easily find elsewhere but never otherwise think to listen to.I have a group chat with friends that we periodically share music recommendations in. So far that's been my solution to the problem. I've been also brainstorming an idea for a music browsing/recommendation site thing but I haven't really gotten around to working on it.
also, piracy. I buy a bunch of stuff from independent artists, bandcamp etc, but fuck paying for stuff from years ago and they already made their bag or really old stuff where theyre dead and the money is going to whoever
I like buying CDs from thrift stores and ripping them to my computer. There's always a great selection of stuff cause people are always getting rid of their physical collections nowadays
>Laughed when buddy started collecting CDs as an investment in the next vinyl>Turns out he might be right
bump.Also download Soulseek. You can get anything on there.
it's like same days when you'd stumble upon your favorite artist in a record storeno matter how much they're playing on radio or tv, there's always something you're not interested in
I still miss what cd bros :(
>>128223149I just wanna download all my spotify shit into mp3's but i can't be arsed to look up everything one by one. I dunno if spotifly exists anymore either.
i was never on slsk or whatcd but rutracker has been doing me very good lately, for big releases
>>128234125rutracker is very good, at least for metal. I find like 90% of what I'm looking for therenothing compares to what.cd though, it was perfect
>>128223149the iTunes application is terrible tho, might as well be malware
>>128234287I'd love it if there was another way to reliably get international music but iTunes is often your only chance. I guess a big part of the music streaming industry is just doing the bullshit with legal rights across territories when record companies can't be bothered.
If you want to own your music and don't want music to disappear from storefronts, buy it now.
