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Music services still pretty useful. I'm using deezer for example, it can stream lossless audio and kinda okay with "radio" mode. Used spotify before, but it infuriated me by suggesting same music I already heard for 20-50 times. It's like at some point it just traps you in your own bubble of 100-200 songs.
The alternative would be downloading thousands of albums in flac and uploading to multiple devices. Plus you need to add new music, which includes searching for that mentioned music. So yeah, nah, I'm okay with paying subscription for now. Until they eventually go to shit like video services did. Then we will need to come up with "popcorn time" alternative for music I guess.
I still sticking with Qobuz. 70% of the time I listen to music I try to discover new artists and find obscure stuff. It would be way to time consuming to download random stuff via. Soulseek in hope to find a single track I like. So the discoverability of streaming services is unbeaten. If I like an Artist, I either download the tracks on Soulseek (Which is pain in the ass in my opinion) or I buy it via. bandcamp to add the to my offline collection.
Man I have zero issues with Soulseek. I've gotten so much stuff from there. Even obscure. What struggles do you have with it?
Where can I find more info on Soulseek? I'd rather not web search and land somewhere and get bad info.
This is the main site, https://www.slsknet.org/news/faq-page I'm linking you to the FAQ. You can get the client there too.
Concept is simple. It's searchable p2p file sharing. You have the client, open/filter two ports on your firewall (soulseek qt has a button to check the ports are open), share a folder with media you want to share with others, then start searching for things you'd like. You can filter searches too. I keep my searches filtered to flac files for example.
As a note, some people are weird about you downloading too much in one go, so good rule of thumb is to DL no more than 1 album at a time from someone. Some people are stupid weird about it though and will block access if you queue more than a single file. Just put them on your block list too and unshare from them and move on. It's not worth it to message people like that.
If I am searching for something I mostly will find it, but only 1/4 of my downloads complete. Most of the time the downloads stuck at the status "queued" and won't download. I have to find at least 4 different sources to get the Track I want. I'm using Nicotine+.
Are you sharing too? Most people on there autoblock transfers if the DLer isn't sharing.
I haven't used Nicotine+ so I can't be sure there isn't something with that. I just use the soulseekQt client.
Yes. Always. About 60Gb. Maybe it's the Client but I don't think this will solve the problem but I will try soulseekQt.
Edit: Wow. I think this was the solution! With the OG Soulseek Client every request is downloading within seconds! The Client looks a little bit out of date, but if it works, I don't mind. Surprisingly I get some bot messages every few request to prove I'm human. I never got these kind of messages with Nicotine+. Thank you very much!
Sure thing! Glad it worked out well for you! That's awesome it was an easy fix lol
Use qobuz, i like its option to download the tracks. Artist selection is pretty reasonable for me
I'm downloading thousands of albums now in a bid to archive and run my own streaming service and let me tell you, I probably won't ever unsubscribe from Tidal.
Instead of uploading to multiple devices you can host Navidrome or jellyfin
Not everyone have static IP and device that can work as server. But yeah, it's not like you can't find work around: something like old android phone or spare notebook with pinggy on top would do the trick. Still, point stands - as for now it's less convenient option.
You can use a DDNS
Yep, if you don't have any hardware or money that sucks, the hardware costs a lot, what i could buy with 20-30€ costs over the hundreds
Khm-khm, arm boards, khm-khm
No like, for real, why 16gb arm board like O6 now costs almost 1k euro? 32gb version right now 1400 euro on aliexpress. FOR WHAT? Finest chinesium?
And "affordable" Raspberry Pi with as much ram as my toaster (and similar CPU at that) now costs more money, than regular small mini PC on x86.
I need to dig into that a bit more, but I'm not sure if it will work with NAT on ISP side (with is a common thing at least in region I'm from).
Tailscale or cloudflare tunnel should fix your CGNAT issue. The former is more private I believe.
I have no clue why that triggered people so much. Never stated that I have any problem with that, nor that I need any help solving it. I leave my apartment like, once per month and cause living in EU - there no need to "travel" further than opposite street to buy anything I may need.
On top of that, point was that it's issue for other people in general. Explain how to setup tailscale to your grandma, I dare you.
Even x86 hardware, because everyone is now selling shit without RAM and SSD/HDDs but with the same prices
It should work in theory
Not sure how DDNS would work with CGNAT since multiple users would be sharing one public IP address.
There's other solutions though. Tailscale for one
Next cloud for like 5 a month, has subsonic server included.
Stream your music+several TB of storage.