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​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.

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[–] Azzu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 6 hours ago

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.

[–] sefra1@lemmy.zip 4 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

https://monochrome.tf/

Not an aggregator, but...

[–] upstroke4448@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 9 hours ago

You can use something like Debird Vault as a decent facsimile

https://debridvault.elfhosted.com/

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 7 points 11 hours ago

monochrome.tf

[–] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 19 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

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.

[–] howmuch@reddthat.com 15 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 3 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Care to share some? Public trackers are trash for music.

[–] howmuch@reddthat.com 7 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)
[–] quips@slrpnk.net 1 points 3 hours ago

Yeah like you can listen to anything on red

[–] beeng@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 12 hours ago

That annas archive Spotify dump plus streamio would go a long way.

[–] ResistingArrest@lemmy.zip 6 points 12 hours 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.

[–] PlexSheep 6 points 14 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.

[–] zerobot@lemmy.wtf -3 points 13 hours ago

bc dad said no