Comment by hbosch
24 days ago
>OK, I will ask. I presume you purchased all those music files that you host on that certain server, didn’t you?
I self-host my music streaming with Plex, and I'll go ahead and admit to you that no -- not all of my music is paid for.
>Also, these self hosted music services mean — no new music reco/discover, right?
I've discovered more music, and more interesting music, through my Plex server in 6 months than I have on Spotify/Apple music in 6+ years. On the site where I get my music, I have downloaded thousands of albums - 75+% of which I have never heard in my life. I did this by downloading albums I liked, and then snatching all related albums on top, and then snatching all the albums collected by people who like the albums I like, and so on. And so I now have a collection of music all relatively close to my taste but FULL of stuff I've never heard in my life.
On top of that, this site also has ways to follow users and has a way to see albums that they enjoy. It has a top 10 board of the most popular albums on the site that day/month/year.
Then, on the Plex side, Plexamp (which I stream with) has many many ways to start "stations". "Time travel radio", Decade radio, Style (genre), Mood ("Ambitious radio", "Cerebral radio", "Passionate radio", etc.) and more such as algo-DJs with specific styles.
It's all much higher quality mechanisms for discovery than payola-weighted streaming algorithms and "curated" playlists.
What site is this? I miss some sites from 15+ years ago which let people post bootlegs.
Roon (proprietary) has great music discovery features like this. They curate a structured database of all the people related to each act, recording, etc. every artist has an info page with lots of links, so you can trace collaborators across projects. They use the same data to power a really good radio and album recommendation features.
https://roon.app/en/music/data
Sounds like an interesting website. Would you mind sharing the link? Asking for a friend.
The successor to oink was what.cd (most would say), and this site is the successor to what.cd -- it starts with the letters 'Red' and is a synonym for 'erased'.
I love everything about this thread. I can't help but think about the context and what big part it plays here - imagine someone reads this in 1,000 years, they would have to know so many things on so many levels to understand it the way I did.