Looking for a Spotify replacement

Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Chais@sh.itjust.works⁩ to ⁨selfhosted@lemmy.world⁩

By that I mean randomly generated playlists. Based on either one or multiple tags, songs or artists. Finite or infinite.

Ideally it would allow combining local sources with remote ones for discovering new music. Thinking along the lines of audioscrobbler, Bandcamp and SoundCloud. Maybe one could even hook into Spotify’s API, of they allow that.

Does something like this exist? I’m currently running Navidrome and while it’s pretty and functional, it’s very much a classic Mediaplayer, that just happens to be a website.

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Phegan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
This post has caused me to fall down a self hosting rabbit hole. Since reading it I have set up a navidrome server and I am starting to work on recommendation methods and acquisition methods to rebuild my library

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- clavismil@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  How did you structure your library? Did you use lidarr?
  
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Blizzard@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
zemmy.cc/post/25500

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- iHUNTcriminals@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I’m intimidated by getting this set up.
  
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- caleb@lemmy.moorenet.casa ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  This is awesome
  
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- Chais@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Ooh, that looks interesting. Thanks.
  
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atmur@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Navidrome’s smart playlists can do some of this. You’re basically building filters for songs to be added to a playlist automatically though, it’s not as “smart” as Spotify.

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- rostby@lemmy.fmhy.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Navidrome with play:sub and feishin is what I do
  
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lemann@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Outside of Plexamp, I’m not sure of any self hosted music solutions that can generate random & context-aware playlists, most of the ones I’m aware of (Navidrome and the various apps that support it) appear to be mostly classic media players as you mentioned. There’s also Funkwhale, but that’s more of a self hosted, federated SoundCloud alternative I think.

Music discoverability is something I kind of stuggle with when looking to expand my library, so I tend to rely on apps to do this. I personally use Newpipe, as it works for YouTube, SoundCloud and Bandcamp, allowing me to jump between the platforms looking for remixes and the like.

For a more spotify-like discovery experience, the Spotube app combines Spotify’s API with YouTube Music to play spotify-suggested playlists, and there’s another app SimpMusic that does the same for YouTube music

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- Chais@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  
  There’s also Funkwhale, but that’s more of a self hosted, federated SoundCloud alternative I think.
  
  It’s also primarily for self-publishing. When sharing music that’s not your own I suspect you quickly run into the same issues as with torrents. With probably similar solutions.
  
  I’ll check out Spotube and SimpMusic, although the local music part is missing from your description.
  
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clavismil@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
What a good timing, I was looking for a YT music replacement.

Navidrome seems like a good choice but is exactly what you’re are saying “classic media player with a webUI”. I like the convenience of YT music recommendations and all the music available even the music I don’t usually listen to. I would need a much bigger music library or a way to facilitate the music discovery and automate the downloads.

I know there’s is Lidarr to automatically download music but I read some people saying music naming scheme is a mess. So anybody has successfully replaced Spotify or YT music with Navidrome or similar? How is your setup?

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- zachatrocity@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I use lidarr in combination with these scripts for downloading.
  
  github.com/RandomNinjaAtk/arr-scripts
  
  Really nice set up, add music you want in lidarr and it just magically appears for you.
  
  For front end I use plexamp like others have mentioned
  
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bigBananas@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Logitech media server (squeezebox) with the don’t stop the music plugin. It can use different services for context aware playlists and I found last.fm to be a lot better than Spotify. MusicIP used to be a thing on LMS as well, and probably can still be used, that’s completely local but analyzing new tracks is slow since MusicIP servers are down (MusicIP got bought by Spotify ages ago).

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Vendetta9076@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Slsk,lidarr and either plex or jellyfin for plexamp/finamp. Other alternative is deemix but it requires paying for deezer if you want 320/FLAC

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