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[–] 9 points 1 year ago (5 children)

fun fact:

Jellyfin works for music (and audio books) just as well as it does for movies and TV shows!

And being open source, there are apps specific to certain use cases. Like on ios there's Finamp for music and Plappa for audio books.

It also streams in FLAC quality!

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Plex also has Plexamp which works great for music, if you’re like me and got the lifetime Plex pass long ago.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Is there a FOSS music discovery service? I like to listen to 1920' to 1960', and the radios and discovery in those era on Spotify work extremely well.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    I'm not sure. In my case with Jellyfin it's fully self-hosted and not connected to any kind of discovery service.

    I appreciate the value of automated music discovery services. I listened to so much last.fm in the early days of it. But like I have posted about before, I have been trying the old fashioned way lately and liking it a lot. I search for the best bands, best songs, best albums of a certain genre or period. It gives me some listicles on music websites and some discussions between what seem like real people, etc.

    So then I just start downloading entire albums or discographies, and then work those in to listen at work. Maybe listen to albums as albums, or shuffle play all songs from the artist, or make a playlist, or just shuffle play my entire library.

    When a song really jumps out at me, I'll generally add it to my ever-growing playlist.

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