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YouTube Music Price Hike: I've had enough. Am I missing anything? (europe.pub)
submitted 2 months ago by to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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I'm tired of being screwed over so I'm done. So far I have:

  • Installed YouTube music and YouTube via Morphe
  • Installed uBlock Origin, Sponsor Block and YouTube Enhanced on Firefox
  • I've also installed YT-DLP to download videos if I have to.

Yet to do:

  • Work out the best app for my Nvidia Shield Pro 2019
  • Work out if there are any alternatives or way to still use my google nest minis in any way.

Does anyone have any advice or tools to help improve the experience?

Finally I have to add that I do also have a full ARR suite installed and setup on a raspberry pi for but I've always found Lidarr to be the weakest of the bunch. Works a treat for my TV shows and Music

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[–] 34 points 2 months ago (13 children)

navidrome, self-hosted is what I use. Personally, the less I have to contact google's servers for the media I enjoy, the better.

Sorry I don't have better advice, but alongside soulseek, lucida.to, and torrents, I have way more music than I think I'll ever be able to listen to in my lifetime.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    What's the spot for music torrents nowadays?

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    I need to get navidrome set up, but I'm also wary of selfhosting anything externally accessible at home. As it is I just sync my music between phone and pc which works well enough.

    The one thing I haven't been able to find is a good music recommendation or discovery solution a la Spotify daily mixes

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    The spotify daily mix thing, I get you on that, I miss it too! I honestly just browse rateyourmusic, acquire them via soulseek, and hope for the best. As I said, I have more than enough music to last a lifetime, but for those who don't have a great library already, I think some of the fun of music comes from the process of discovery too!

    But as to making my music externally accessible, I mean, it is at least secured by a basic auth page, and I mean, what would a bad actor want, to sabotage my music collection? It would suck, but I mean, wouldn't be the end of the world. I have it routed behind caddy and a cloudflare tunnel, so the only threat in this circumstance is someone who has access to my home.

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    • [–] 22 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    SmartTube for your nvidia shield. You'll need 'Downloader' to get it. Also check out Project Ivy for the shield if you want a better UI

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    • [–] 15 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    I second the existing recommendations. Unfortunately Lidarr is only partially operational. My stack consists of:

    • Music on a large storage drive
    • Slskd so it keeps my account active and supplies a WebUI for downloads (but if you try to browse users with 500K songs, the browser just dies trying to load it all in memory)
    • Beetbox beets for metadata embedding, renaming and moving into the final storage as per my naming convention. Pro tip: pipx install beets[lyrics] to include the lrclib plugin
    • Navidrome for hosting a personal streaming service. Comes with a WebUI, and is SubSonic compatible to allow any SubSonic client such as Symfonium or Tempo (available on F-droid).

    For my particular use case (Proxmox-based container), I have a tutorial available. This can no doubt be adapted slightly if your system differs.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    Thanks for taking the time to write such a detailed answer. Lidarr is a complete flop for me I find it very frustrating to use!

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    I just got slskd for soulseek going. You can add slskd as a source in lidarr. Need to add a plug-in to do so. I've also noticed lidarr sucks with torrents, but now that it's using slskd it's been pretty great. There's also nicotine+ if you want a desktop app to connect to soulseek, but seeing as I already had portainer and a bunch of docker stuff already, I went with slskd.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 2 months ago (1 child)

    I found a soulseek image for my portainer setup but I'm struggling to get it to work. Navidrome works perfectly which is exciting. I don't really understand the difference or rather the connection between slskd and soulseek

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago
    • soulseek is the sharing platform (not sure how it works exactly, some kind of federation with a central broker to search for users? Like how Matrix by default uses the primary domain for 'discovery')
    • soulseekqt is the program that enables you to interact with the soulseek network
    • slskd is a program specifically for remote running soulseekqt on a headless (no display) server, and serves a web UI with separate login so you can access it from another machine

    The use case for slskd is if you want your music to live on a different machine, whereas soulseek/qt is for if you want your music on your primary machine. Another reason I keep it on a server is efficiency - I can expose my collection for sharing without having my 200W+ PC on, instead my server takes ~60W, ~20 if i remove the GPU

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    • [–] 12 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    when I'm in need of offline music I pay for one month of tidal and then use streamrip to download it all

    https://github.com/nathom/streamrip

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    • [–] 9 points 2 months ago*

    Soulseek, start to collect and share your music collection in high-quality format (FLAC)

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    [–] 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

    If you enjoy a small independent band please consider going to their website and ordering physical media or buying a digital copy from their bandcamp or something. You can still pirate content you will never play to to fill up your storage. Small artists aren't getting hugely rich from their music and touring costs are out of control. It doesn't have to be all or nothing with the piracy.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    My favourite group of the year Fin del Mundo came to my city and I made sure to buy a cassette of theirs they released. I will always support groups I love when I can.

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    • [–] 6 points 2 months ago (11 children)

    I couldn’t get Lidarr to work very well so I started using Soulseek. Highly recommend it!

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    You can use slskd as a source in lidarr to download from soulseek. Gives you the nice *arr format and auto downloads, but connected to soulseek you actually get results to download.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Slskd is a plugin which isnt officially supported. So no support in the discord if you have to ask about issues.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    I really hate that all the support channels are moving to discord instead of the web where you can just search and find the answers, because it's almost a guarantee that someone else already had the problem and it got answered. And you used to just be able to Google to find the answer. Now every question is, this is a support question, closing the thread go to discord.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

    Discord is the equivalenf of "I need support now".
    Sort of like a lifeline for personalized issues.
    Sometimes self inflicted.

    Your described issues are something else. Something that is worthy a git issue.

    Yes it annoys me too. But there are channels for each topic. And to be fair, a forum aint exactly support friendly for on-demand questions.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    Yeah Lidarr is just not that good, thanks for the recommendation.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Lidarr is also no source but a search engine. If you don't supply it with indexers it's of course "shit".
    Same as the eternal issue of bing vs google as a search engine.

    Comparing apples and oranges...

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Hi. I'm not saying it's shit. I know you need an indexer. I just wasn't a huge fan of how it oragnised music and it struggles with discs with multiple artists etc. Maybe I didn't know hoe best to utilise it properly, which is most likely the case.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    It doesnt organize what musicbrainz isnt providing. And it does what musicbrainz does.
    The main artist is the sorting artist.
    Additional artists are just that. Additions.
    If it is an even collab, it's either under 'Various Artists' or on the other artist.

    Does it bother me? Yep.
    I think how Spotify does it, it's better (listing all artists on the album). But that's now how the industry seems to work ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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    • [–] 6 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    My main issue with music streamers is that lately they have been pumping way too much AI garbage music into my playlist.

    What's a good playlist generation app to discover music in the same vein as a song or album I select?

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    last.fm?

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    • [–] 6 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    soulseek/nicotine :3

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    • [–] 5 points 2 months ago

    I recommend grayjay on your phone+fcast receiver on your tv.

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    [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    not sure about the nvidia shield but have you looked at re-vanced?

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