What’s your recommendation for listening to music privately?

My requirements are: open source desktop/web (Linux) and android app. I also want basically every song I would ever want.

I’m willing to pay just not on agregious amount of money.

If you are posting your recommendation please care to include the tradeoffs or any annoyances you got from it.

Thanks all!

  • whatiswrongwithyou@lemmy.ml
    2·
    3 days ago

    I know this sounds stupid and pedantic, but what do you mean by ownership?

    Where or how do you download?

    E: recommendation isn’t off the table, you’ll just have to go about it in an unconventional way.

    • guymontag@lemmy.mlOP
      2·
      3 days ago

      Ownership as in its a file on my device, no DRM or whatever shit people have on files nowadays.

      I download either bandcamp or sometimes from yt music.

      • whatiswrongwithyou@lemmy.ml
        1·
        3 days ago

        Set up whatever arr piracy stack is going now and some kind of overlay network (vpn but not in the vernacular of “anonymizing proxy”) to play your files.

        Pick a player that you like and use it.

        Use a combination of rss and scripts to get recommendations.

        • guymontag@lemmy.mlOP
          1·
          2 days ago

          Could you explain a little more on what you mean by rss and scripts to get recommendations. I’ve never really messed with something like that. Any recomemended feeds or sum to look at.

          • whatiswrongwithyou@lemmy.ml
            2·
            1 day ago

            Oh yeah, you can also, if you’re the kind of person who would do this, just be caveman about it and build a physical media library. Learn how to rip and sync the files to your device and you’re ready to go.

            CDs are the easiest because all you need is a cd drive and a computer. Records and tapes need their specific player and an audio interface (or one of those all in one newfangled players that have a usb on the back).

            It’s pretty fun…

          • whatiswrongwithyou@lemmy.ml
            1·
            2 days ago

            Everything you need already exists, it’s just plumbing.

            RSS takes in a website with articles or blog posts or whatever and makes them summarized so you can just look through the titles.

            Some kind of script to load some recent plays of yours on YouTube and scrape, compare and output the recommended panel would give you their recs.

            There are also very bad no good recommendation engines that don’t work. At least they were bad and didn’t work in the past.

    • FineCoatMummy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      3 days ago

      I know this sounds stupid and pedantic, but what do you mean by ownership?

      Diff person here. Can’t speak for who you asked. Not stupid OR pedantic tho! For me, it means two things.

      One, that the music cannot be taken away from me against my will. So no DRM! No s/w that can reach into my device and remove things, how it was happening with DRM audiobooks. The music must be Plain Old Files. That I can copy and backup. No special s/w. Oldschool CDs were like that. DRM-ed music is not like that.

      Two, also means I have fairly paid the artist. Especially for smaller bands, or single individual musicians. If I like their shit enough to seek it out, I feel they deserve to get paid.

      It’s both of those at once that’s harder than it should be. Easy enuf to get one, or the other, alone.

      It’s not impossble tho. There are ways to have both, and I do it.