Instead of slskd I recommend using nicotine+. I found slskd worked fine, but was a pain to set up. I found a Nicotine docker that works just like the app inside a web UI. Much less of a learning curb for someone who’s not familiar with servers.
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Bucky@okaythen.lol 2 weeks ago
If you really want to kick this up a notch, install Sonarr and slskd and let it just churn on your library and drip music into your folder. No solution for the spotify discovery algorithm, at least not a good one. But this stack is solid.
thetrekkersparky@startrek.website 2 weeks ago
zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Ouch, I hit the learning curb
Bucky@okaythen.lol 2 weeks ago
Interesting. Thanks for that. I started this project a few months ago then got sidetracked and am about to get back into it.
thetrekkersparky@startrek.website 2 weeks ago
Here’s the link to the docker I used. There are a few others on github, but this one seemed like it was the most actively updated.
github.com/sirjmann92/nicotineplus-proper
I liked slskd perfectly fine once I got it going, but I couldn’t get my partner to use it as she was used to nicotine and didn’t like the new interface. Once the Docker was set up in Portainer there was very little additional configuration and the rest was inside the nicotine webui app.
TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
I thought Lidarr is for music. Sonarr is for series.
Downloading music illegally avoids giving money to the bad companies but the artists still need to get paid. They can’t work for free. They deserve our money. So please share music, but also support the artists. Through bandcamp for example.
Bucky@okaythen.lol 2 weeks ago
What I meant was Soularr. Sorry there are just too many of these apps with similar names. Soularr is a python script that runs in docker and it checks Lidarr (I believe) and then sends that info back to slskd. It was checking my artist list in my navidrome dir and then checking slskd and downloading absolutely everything I didn’t have by that artist. It ran for a few months, but I was kind of a novice at self hosting and a lot of duplicate files were created because I didn’t have the volumes mapped properly in docker. Then I wrote a script that accidentaly created an infinite loop that started copying all the files one level deeper then would repeat . I stopped it after like 4 iterations. Long story short I have four copies of a bunch of files and I got lost with Beets and plan to start over from scratch with the original source library.
TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Wow that’s sick! Would love to fix that next to all the other automated download systems I have, but I now have money and I want to support the artists. Maybe still a good idea for the impossible to get music which isn’t sold anywhere. Like tekno. Thanks! I’ll look into soularr. I know soulseek, but last time I tried it, it fucked up my internet connection settings somehow. Really weird. I wanted to try it again, after not using it for… 15 years now? But yeah, all internet access was blocked when I opened slsk. Also the music I have to share is old. And back then the quality was poor. I have a 2TB music collection but I think 3/4 of it is poor quality mp3’s.
Bucky@okaythen.lol 2 weeks ago
Well. I mean soulseek lists the quality of the file and you can set that so you don’t download poor quality. I wouldn’t worry about it. I;ve never had a problem with soulseek either with the app or with slskd. I have spotify and apple music so I’m, you know, doing the bare minimum to suport artists. I have a lot of live music and rare music that spotify simply will never have.
I stopped slskd because of the duplicates and also because I was worried it would run me out of space because I have a lot of artist in my library.