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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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[–] prismatic@ttrpg.network 2 points 1 hour ago

There's no need when it's a lot easier to leach off existing music streaming services. See: https://forum.mobilism.me/viewforum.php?f=1332

In my experience - the Spotify cracks break frequently and require too regular patching to be worthwhile, but other platforms like Deezer tend to be pretty stable.

Stremio is a solution to video content being divided among platforms in a way that music is not, and there platforms being a lot more difficult to leach off of.

[–] Azzu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 8 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 5 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

https://monochrome.tf/

Not an aggregator, but...

[–] upstroke4448@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 11 hours ago

You can use something like Debird Vault as a decent facsimile

https://debridvault.elfhosted.com/

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 8 points 13 hours ago

monochrome.tf

[–] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 18 points 15 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 16 points 15 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 14 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] howmuch@reddthat.com 8 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)
[–] quips@slrpnk.net 1 points 5 hours ago

Yeah like you can listen to anything on red

[–] beeng@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 14 hours ago

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

[–] ResistingArrest@lemmy.zip 6 points 14 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 7 points 16 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 15 hours ago

bc dad said no