I have had YouTube Premium Music since it was launched. I uploaded nearly 15,000 MP3s at the time. Now that the family plan is $28 a month, what free alternatives are out there for music streaming?

  • Noggog@programming.devEnglish
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    4 days ago

    Not true. I self host my music, which is what got me into homelabbing in the first place. I have 7 months+ playtime of music, and a pipeline for finding new recommended content with it. And i get the benefit of not having my music removed when license deals expire or never existed. And my random play actually randomizes instead of whatever profit optimized engine Spotify pretends to be “random” playing, so I actually hear new stuff. And I have playlists that can have more than 10k songs, but I dont even need those because I have smart playlists, including ones set up to only play things i havent ever listened to. I wouldnt ever go back

    • chaospatterns@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 days ago

      a pipeline for finding new recommended content with

      This is the thing I miss the most about going from streaming to self hosted. The shuffle exposing me to new content.

      How do you discover new music and artists preferably based on listened music? I tried scrobbling Jellyfin to listenbrainz but had mediocre success because either I wasn’t interested or it took me researching similar listeners.

      • Noggog@programming.devEnglish
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        2 days ago

        Unfortunately that is a legitimately missing piece for the wide community atm. I’ve filled the gap myself with a personal app that pulls recommendations from deezer/musicbrainz. As I rate things up in it, it starts displaying new recommendations to me based on those bands. I might polish it up and release down the road if I get some spare cycles

    • vandsjov@feddit.dk
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      3 days ago

      My best smart playlist I had in iTunes was the one that included the top 50 of all my music with 3 stars or more (one star was not music, two stars was music I would never listen to randomly, and anything above would be actual music rating), sorted by fewest plays. I would then put that playlist on random, so music I haven’t heard a lot, like newly added music, would be in heavy rotation in the start until the play count started to match my other music.