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killeronthecorner@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Ditched Spotify and bought myself a galleon and a tricorner hat instead. Haven’t looked back.

Lidarr + Navidrome + Feishin + Metube

Mullvad for acquiring, TailScale and Symfonium for listening while away from home

This sounds like a lot of setup but probably took a few hours in total to set up the various docker images and get them working together.

I spend my saved money on vinyls, official merch, and SoundCloud or BandCamp purchases for my local library.

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Emptiness@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Yarrr! hello there fellow matey! 🏴‍☠️ Sounds good but, do you also set this up individually on your wife’s and kids phones and devices and keep them updated?

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- killeronthecorner@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I mostly don’t! The kids are too young, the wife has Home Assistant, Symfonium and has web shortcuts for the arrs. Haven’t had any complaints since I got 2FA and external domain mapped for Hass.
  
  My friend has had good results with jellyseerr with his wife and kids though haven’t got to the point of needing it myself.
  
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shoo@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Out of curiosity, what is your experience/usage like with this? Spotify is very easy to justify if you heavily use some of their features because there’s not a way (that I know of) to replicate them. For example:

Shared playlists

Universal links directly to songs

Playback control from a second device

Group listen/jam

Zero overhead for search and discovery. From someone mentioning a band you can find, sample, and add to a playlist in 30s or less

Public playlist discovery

Easy crawling. Eg. browsing from Song -> Featured Artist -> Album -> Record label -> Related Artists etc…
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- killeronthecorner@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I scrobble with Last.FM for music discovery.
  
  I don’t really use social features and not sure if they’re popular in homelab land. Some people I know share a Plex server.
  
  I’m not a purist about these things tbh, I have an Xbox live subscription, among others, to use social features for pretty much the same reason you’re using Spotify. I might have stuck with them if I was using them more.
  
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cosmicrookie@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
A few hours, when you know what you’re doing. A few month when you have to figure it out, and maybe even then, it won’t work, or you’ll have lost a lot of money trying.

This should be a lot easier to do, than it is

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- CallMeAnAI@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Good Lord, others like you do exist!
  
  This might be the actual first time I’ve seen someone just call out the bullshit for some of these people running janky services who don’t have a family they need to support.
  
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- killeronthecorner@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Fair, I should clarify: the few hours is for the music parts only. The homelab set up could easily stretch to months … And I’d still recommend doing it to most, it’s great fun setting it up!
  
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