​We have Stremio for movies and TV, which works flawlessly by pulling from different sources (add-ons) including torrents into one clean UI. But when it comes to music, the options are either paying for Spotify/Tidal or dealing with clunky, manual setups.

I’ve seen apps like ViMusic or Innertune, but they are mostly just YouTube Music frontends. Soulseek is a p2p service and the usability is horrible.
I’m talking about a true, modular aggregator. That uses torrents and lossless databases.

  • ResistingArrest@lemmy.zipEnglish
    3·
    1 hour ago

    I don’t know what your experience with soulsseek has been but I’ve loved it. However, if you think the experience should be more seamless and integrated, you should program a bridge for slskd and navidrome that runs the downloaded media through MusicBrainz Picard or beets before putting it in the Navidrome library.

  • deegeese@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    7·
    3 hours ago

    Too many releases, too much metadata.

    New music ingestion has an actual department staffed with people at those companies. The pirates just can’t keep up.

  • cecinestpasunbot@lemmy.mlEnglish
    2·
    2 hours ago

    It should be possible but I’m guessing that the final result would not be as seamless as Stremio. If you’ve ever tried using Lidarr you’ll realize that a lot of music just can’t be found in public trackers. Even if it is available, the file name formatting is not as consistent as it is for TV or Movie torrents. Since songs are so much shorter than other forms of media that adds a lot of friction. Using a streaming service, self hosted or otherwise, is probably the better solution anyways.

  • PlexSheep@infosec.pubEnglish
    4·
    3 hours ago

    Not enough people seed or distribute music. The only good way I know is downloading from YouTube, but YouTube is working hard on blocking this too.