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Same for me! Switched to Bandcamp + Navidrome and have decided that one of my goals for the year is to find at least 2 albums per month I want to buy.

I will shamelessly promote the bandcampsync [1] CLI tool for automating downloads of your bandcamp library and bandcamp-sync-flask [2] wrapper that I built so I could invoke it from the web on my phone after I buy an album.

[1] https://github.com/meeb/bandcampsync

[2] https://github.com/subdavis/bandcamp-sync-flask

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> one of my goals for the year is to find at least 2 albums per month I want to buy.

Rate Your Music (RYM) has been invaluable for me in discovering loads of music, I'd highly recommend it

Please, share your method.

I looked up an artist there (Dio), and then an album (Holy diver). Neither page helped me find "similar" music

find the bands listed on metal-archives and check the "similar artists" tab, also the side-bar sources from r/metal on reddit

Look at the user lists that the band/album is included in. The title of the list should give you a good idea of what else you'll find on it.

You can also click on any one of the band/album's genres and look at the charts.

> find at least 2 albums per month I want to buy.

Maybe I should set that goal as well, for 2025 I had 120 ;)

Love bandcamp, love navidrome! And if you are on Android and don’t mind using closed source, paid (one-time) software, Symfonium is pretty much the best mobile player you can get for selfhosted streaming.

Man, it was 1997 the last time I bought as much music as I did last year. I'm very happy that neither Youtube Music nor Spotify see a dime of it.

This is great. If you packaged it as a docker-compose YAML and maybe added a periodic task to poll automatically id drop it into Container Station in my NAS today.

Awesome! Something that I had on my todo list the past couple of months, because I also switched from YT Music to Navidrome + Bandcamp. Feels great to own your music again.

Thanks for sharing your work!

oh my god thank you for showing me that

I had been using a combination of aria2 and a link scraper plugin for years to download bulk out of bandcamp because of how fast their API will time out.

What's the navidrome pitch?

You stream the music you own, it uses the subsonic protocol/API, and so is compatible with countless clients, letting your enjoy your lossless music on fancy hardware at home or cached on your mobile device when on the go.

Better Plex than plex for music built by people who know what they're doing that uses a common API among different servers and clients, including ones that glue to Sonos, etc.

self-hosted winamp, using an open protocol, so you can use whatever client if you don't like its web application.

Hi subdavis!

hey meeb :) thanks again for this tool!

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