Did this for years. Finally gave up last year. It’s so much work, discovery is a huge pain, listening on all devices is a pain. None of it was worth it.
Now I just use Spotify and don’t care. I don’t need the extra work in my life.
Now I just use Spotify and don’t care. I don’t need the extra work in my life.
I dont see it solving discoverability yet, but it worked completely fine on my Android devices. It also does some automatic tagging of your music to generate dynamic playlists.
it is limited to plex pass subscribers for now though. i'd say it's worth trying a free trial at least.
i listen to djs, radio stations and other internet channels that mix the music i like into new and exciting compositions.
I found discovery excellent in Google but Spotify is horrible, it thinks I want to listen to Pop because I put a playlist of "top" or "charts" on while I work, when really I want rock/metal albums and can't discover them for the life of me.
Also, because it has basically ruined my music preferences, despite me telling it what I want to be recommended, it makes recommendations for "Dua Lipa" and "Doja Cat". Nothing against either of them, but not really what I was looking for.
I guess you just have musically eclectically challenged friends.
I am SCREAMING OUT for a service that was like the old Spotify radio.
Currently just going to gigs again and finding bands through bandcamp the organic way is what I'm doing.
Also, here is a script I wrote to download and extract a Bandcamp download link and import it with the beet CLI music library manager:
https://github.com/radiosilence/dotfiles/blob/master/.zsh.d/...
I then use Navidrome (modern Subsonic replacement) to serve it up:
The radio also generate different playlists over time, the tracks in a song's/artist's radio will change and not be a static 30-odd tracks forever.
It uses Spotify under the hood, similar to how the radio used to work.