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  • Why I Ditched Spotify, and How I Set Up My Own Music Stack | LeshiCodes

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  • It's the opposite for me. I don't want to read about music. I just want to listen to music that I don't know yet but am likely to like. I don't want to dig around for it. The algorithms you dislike do something that no article or podcast can: give me personally tailored recommendations. She not in an abstract way but just as a playlist.

  • Why I Ditched Spotify, and How I Set Up My Own Music Stack | LeshiCodes

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  • I was addressing this part of what you said

    Ah ok that part wasn't clear to me, sorry (maybe quote it if you're reffering to a small part of a comment?). Yes, it would work for that, but I don't have that collection. I could sail the high seas, but that kinda defeats the purpose of wanting artists to get paid and rather hypocritical. At least they do get paid (even if poorly) using Spotify. So somehow getting to the point where that would work for discovering new-to-me music and that also doesn't screw over artists seems hard, unless I'm missing something?

    EDIT: also, fwiw, I didn’t downvote you lol.

    No worries, I don't pay attention to votes anyway. Doesn't matter on Lemmy (esp. on comments) unless you're talking about visibility, which doesn't do anything on a comment chain like this one either...

  • Why I Ditched Spotify, and How I Set Up My Own Music Stack | LeshiCodes

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  • First of all, after recent events I'm not touching anything from "Plex" with a proverbial 10 foot pole.

    But even that aside, no it won't do what I want because it can't. I can't discover something outside of my library with it. It's a music player for a Plex library. It can generate playlists of songs with similar styles, and that's nice and all, but not what I'm looking for. I'm looking for playlists of things I don't own, or know, or ever heard of, but that are still likely to be something I like. I don't want a sophisticated "shuffle".

  • Why I Ditched Spotify, and How I Set Up My Own Music Stack | LeshiCodes

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  • See my other reply to tofu. Not the same thing. You just couldn't do what these services do even 2 decades ago. You could discover things, but at a very different pace and very different reach. You're limited to discover what friends know from them. Discovering things via "press" isn't free either, it takes time to read the articles, buy the magazines (do they still exists?) and you're likely to only hear about popular things. You also need to find publications that suit your own taste, or learn which authors are compatible with it.

    As for concerts you can only go to those that are near you, which is either local artists or those big enough to tour away from their home base. There are artists that don't tour at all (probably a third of my catalog falls into this category).

  • Why I Ditched Spotify, and How I Set Up My Own Music Stack | LeshiCodes

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  • Friends don't work for me. I don't know a single person who listens to even close to the things that I like. Sure there's some overlap occasionally, and I might hear about one artist once a week or month. I get dozens to hundreds recommended by spotify weekly, and I actually end up liking a handful of those. With friends, it also only works with known artists, and it's incredibly rare to get reommended something that isn't well known but happens to fit my taste by them (don't think that ever happened, actually). As an example just last week I got recommended an artist that has 60-something monthly listeners on Spotify (now 74!). I liked them so much I tried to see what I can find, and they got a youtube channel with 3 (live) videos and like 500-ish views each (38 subscribers). NOBODY is ever gonna recommend me those kinds of things, cause nobody ever heard of them, let alone anyone of my friends (and even if they have, they'd have to know to recommend them to me).

    As for the listenbrainz/last.fm that is kind of a solution, but it takes a very long time to train up your profile to actually be useful. I haven't used it in a VERY long time (decades), but last I did it was kinda "meh". You can also only start out with what you have, as you're scrobbling what you're listenting to. I no longer have most of the music I listen to daily as an actual file/library. So getting that up to date would probably cost thousands of dollars, too. Not to mention it being incredibly tedious to actually gather them on various individual shops and sites like bandcamp or wherever those artists happen to be.

    So as much as I wish there was, there isn't really a (pracical) alternative. Let alone one of the same "competence".

  • Why I Ditched Spotify, and How I Set Up My Own Music Stack | LeshiCodes

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  • Yes it's using "an AI". But that doesn't mean anything. You can't just use any AI and have the same result. Just cause AI got a global hype doesn't mean this is new either. Neural networks have existed for many decades, which is likely what they're using. The hard part is to get the training data. That is where the value (or usefulnes) comes from. And that source is all their users, listening to all the music, importantly including newly released music, all the time. It's the basic idea of "people who liked X also liked Y". What songs people combine together in a playlist. That sort of thing.

    We don't have that data to train "an AI" so we have a local version of this. They have it for millions of users. That's why their AI is incredibly good at this task. Sure, they also let labels pay them to rank things higher so they get more listens, and that is anything but transparent when and how that happens. But over all, you can't just magically do what they are doing locally.

  • Why I Ditched Spotify, and How I Set Up My Own Music Stack | LeshiCodes

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  • Having your own collection is great. But it doesn't provide the service Spotify does (or any streaming service). 80% of the time I listen to discovery-type generated playlists. I want to find new music. This is fundamentally impossible with the music I own. This is something you can't self host. Even if you have a vast collection of music you don't know (by whatever means your get it), you still need the algorithms to pick the music that you're likely to like.

    I really wish I could. I self host basically everything else. Even tried some local music similarity training for "smart playlists". It's kinda neat at best, but no where remotely close to the music discovery of Spotify and other online services. You need the massive amounts of users to derive that data.

  • Is there no good inexpensive CAD software?

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  • There's an entry missing in your list, which many people seem to not know about: Siemens Solid Edge

    Like fusion, is free for personal/hobby use. But it's not "cloud based". Also unlike fusion, they aren't constantly scaling back what you can do with the free edition. Probably worth a shot.

  • Some tech apps/services I personally use instead of their American/Big Tech counterparts [Updated]

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  • Fixed, thx. I was very tried when I wrote that...

  • Where do I start with networking?

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  • If separation is all you're after, any managed switch will work. Even a "smart managed" one. But you'll need Wi-Fi access points that can actually have SSIDs assigned to VLans, like the TP-Link, Mikrotik or ubiquity (basically anything aimed at business). At least if some or many of the iot devices are Wi-Fi based.

  • Some tech apps/services I personally use instead of their American/Big Tech counterparts [Updated]

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  • Usability is the same or better, but this is incredibly subjective. The plus is there is probably a solution specifically what you prefer. If you're coming from Windows, KDE is probably the best starting point. "Desktop environment" is the key word of you want to see options.

    Features are a bit more "it depends", generally more user friendly. But depends on the software we're talking about and can vary wildly.

    There is no cost.

    The only limiting factor for this endeavors in my eyes is that you might need some software that is Windows only. Many windows programs do run fine on Linux, which a lot of people don't realize. You can basically just install them using the compatibility tool "wine". You don't need to do anything for this to work on modern Linux. For games there is "proton", essentially a specialized version of wone. BUT there's software that will not run, or only after a lot of tinkering, or just not well (enough). If that's you, Linux isn't ideal.

    If you're not in need of specialized software, just try it. Most Linux can not from a "live DVD". No need to install. Just use it directly. I've you want to keep your stuff (settings and such), install on a 2nd SSD for like 25 bucks.

  • Backup/Server Options - is Syncthing / Nextcloud really the go?

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  • Just to add to this, if you have periodic snapshots on the server side, this does solve the problem. And it simplifies things a lot.

  • We Built It, Then We Freed It: Telemetry Harbor Goes Open Source

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  • Yes corrected. But I still can never remember what the correct spelling for this is, I actually thought about it. That was the one my keyboard picked with swyping so I just left it...

  • We Built It, Then We Freed It: Telemetry Harbor Goes Open Source

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  • Wether or not that's a plus or minus depends on perspective.

  • Harvey's Resort Hotel bombing (August 26th 1980)

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  • Pretty sure there's also detailed videos about this on YouTube. It's been a while so u didn't have a link, but was quite interesting.

  • BYD starts exporting Thai-made EVs to Europe - electrive.com

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  • Yea, but at least it's there and still kinda working. Half the shit might be late, but you're still getting there. Which is nice.

  • Swapping storage between an Intel laptop and an AMD mini PC

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  • Linux works very differently than Windows. In the majority of cases, assuming the architecture are the same (they are for you), you can just swap the drive and it'll just work. You only need to tell the BIOS to not from the drive. The only considerations would be around graphics, but even then it should come up well enough so you can install packages if needed.

  • This tiny single-board PC is designed to run an open source version of Chrome OS

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  • ... Of which it effectively still is one.

  • Best PieFed instance to recommend to Redditors?

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  • If you consider how subscribing actually works (or rather: has to work) with federated content, this isn't surprising. There could be some mechanism that uses the old community and some sort of meta-post to trigger the subscriptions to migrate, but the hard part is making that abuse-resistant. Probably too hard?