I haven't seen it mentioned here but you can use Plexamp along with multi-scrobbler attached to a service like listenbrainz or last.fm. This will record what you listen to and help come up with personalized recommendations.
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Not in terms of the recommendations, but if you want a client for Subsonic or Jellyfin that is close to the Spotify UI, then I can recommend Sonixd.
There isn't really anything like Spotify. There were attempts to use a service like Last.fm (which isn't self hosted) or libre.fm (which is self hosted but development has been stopped) to track your listening data. Then there were a couple discovery projects that worked with Navidrome (don't really remember the name but they're probably somewhere in r/selfhosted) but they haven't been very succesful.
Even if you somehow managed to solve those problems you've got the next problem which is the fact that you don't have the recommended song available in your library. Perhaps it could be solved wit Lidarr.
Personally I think Spotify is worth $10 a month.
Spotify is the only streaming service I continue to pay for. Mainly because of the sheer size of the library, and the way they recommend new music.
Not in terms of the recommendations, but if you want a client for Subsonic or Jellyfin that is close to the Spotify UI, then I can recommend Sonixd.
It's quite unlikely that a self-hosted music streaming server could give you suggestions of music not in your library without an external service. But there might be some alternatives to Spotify that can address some of the economic injustices in music streaming, just like self-hosted and free/libre/open-source software can address some injustices that damage user privacy and data sovereignty in centralized services.
While not strictly about streaming, I find Bandcamp quite nice for discovering new music. As a bonus, bands receive much more money if you purchase their music than what they'd get when streamed on a service like Spotify. (Note that, in aggregate, a band may nevertheless earn more from mainstream platforms if they are streamed a lot but listeners aren't willing to purchase. Be sure to buy music that you like if you have the means to do so! Not only it helps bands to create more awesome music, you can also listen to downloaded digital files after the demise of centralized streaming platforms.)
Worryingly, Epic Games purchased Bandcamp last year. However, the fate of the platform looks at least somewhat safe, since its workers recently managed to unionize despite initial union-busting by corporate.
Another laternative would be Resonate, which is run as a co-op and has a novel approach to music purchases and paying bands. However, their collection can currently be a bit sparse, depending on which genres you're interested in.
Bandcamp are also one of the few that sell lossless FLAC files, and while I don't really care about listening to FLAC directly, it makes sense as an archive format.
@erisir @maikelthedev I missed that Bandcamp got purchased. That is kind of worrying.
Although everything I've bought off bandcamp is safe in my own library, I would be sad to see it disappear as a good source of music.
It's unusual in that its good both to artists (transparent artist compensation) and listeners (downloadable drm-free music files in multiple formats, minimal js on the website, no bs, just music).
It's been ~1 year since the purchase, I hope the same bandcamp is here in 5 years
This assumes that you have all the new stuff on your server every time? I mean, proposing new stuff without having it makes no sense
I think the only real answer to this is the radio, and even that's not as good
Spotify is just one of those things that always has and always will provide a better service than piracy due to the amount of good music arguably outweighing the time you have to listen to it
The radio is not an answer. I stopped listening to it in 2006 when I installed a new car radio that had an AUX input for my iPod. I recently had to use a car that didn't have BT audio and was forced to use FM. It was horrific. The same playlists from 2006, but with longer and more frequent ads. I tried every station I could find and it was the same deal.
Plex does alright at suggesting music from your own library, and also has some really nice DJ-like song transitions that are legitimately way better than any other track fades. However, Plex users have been frustrated with the company's slow response to fixing long-standing bugs, and some of the features are paid. It's also not open-source.
No idea if it can suggest music that isn't in your library; I know that they integrate with Tidal though, so maybe if you have that it'll also suggest stuff from Tidal?
Ditch Plex and get Jellyfin. Use Symfonium to play your music on your phone.
Plex Amp is by far the best
For albums it works great for me but I also have a moderately sized playlist of lower quality songs (about 900) which plex amp struggles with. When I started that playlist, scrolling would become really laggy.
I switched to using plex for high quality music where I care about correct metadata tagging etc, and navidrome for low quality stuff. Both are then brought together on my phone using symfonium
Hmm weird, I have 1500 some tracka without issue. Is yr metadata on an SSD? I'm not really sure how it sync the metadata but I figure having it on an HDD would cause issues
Actual files are on an HDD and the database on an SSD
I currently use Tidal. Lacks some of the DnB albums I liked on Spotify, but at least has proper audio quality.
This isn't reddit, read the whole post before suggesting just another streaming service.
Plex does alright at suggesting music from your own library, and also has some really nice DJ-like song transitions that are legitimately way better than any other track fades. However, Plex users have been frustrated with the company's slow response to fixing long-standing bugs, and some of the features are paid. It's also not open-source.
No idea if it can suggest music that isn't in your library; I know that they integrate with Tidal though, so maybe if you have that it'll also suggest stuff from Tidal?
PlexAmp is actually really good as a music client.
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