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.
Idk about the usability of stremio because I’ve never used it, but I type my music into one search box, 99% of the time click the first or second result in the result list, and about 10 seconds later it’s in my music folder. I really don’t know what I would improve there.
Not an aggregator, but…
You can use something like Debird Vault as a decent facsimile
Fwiw, soulseek’s usability is not horrid. I have about 8500 albums, mostly downloaded from there and bandcamp. I also combined libraries with a few friends over the years, which is always fun to just bring over a hard drive and share.
Yes, it’s more work but with things like Plexamp I have all the music I could ever want and it works wonderfully when remote, even does the whole “radio” suggested artists thing within my own library.
Another friend of mine has 38k albums. Sometimes I’ll change the source to his and bop around.
What good is piracy unless you’re amassing a huge server full of all your favorite media
That annas archive Spotify dump plus streamio would go a long way.
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.
The pirates just can’t keep up.
You should check out private music trackers. The pirates are literally racing to get new releases up there. Maybe they aren’t quite as complete as some music services but I think it would be hard to argue that they aren’t keeping up.
Care to share some? Public trackers are trash for music.
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The pirates just can’t keep up.
They - or we - can with AI…
They’re already using AI triage.
You still need a human in the loop for validation because AI loves to give false matches.
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.
soulsseek would be better if the client supported a VPN/socksproxy (like QBTorrent does)
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.
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.
Any and everything is on soulseek
bc dad said no
