I’ve gotten spoiled by Spotify’s ability to find music that I had no idea I would want to listen to until I hear it. I want to move back to a self-hosted model for my music needs, but everything I see right now requires me to know what I want to hear and download it before hand.

Is there any sort of selfhosted software anyone knows of that’ll maybe analyze my library and recent songs and generate playlists, connect to Lidarr and instruct it to download the songs?

  • FrankMagecaster@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    My strategy is to use YouTube and SoundCloud’s recommendation engines solely to find artists - not listen. If I like the few samples I hear, I copy-paste their URL into ytdl-sub with their respective genre (https://github.com/jmbannon/ytdl-sub).

    This will download their entire discography on a cron job and properly tag them. Then use your favorite self hosted music app to put that genre on shuffle (I use MusicBee). Smart-playlists and proper tagging go a long way for making ‘discovery’ playlists. If it’s an artist I really like, I will ‘upgrade’ them to a better quality via soulseek or torrents.

    While it’s not fully automated, I’ve found this workflow to work better than anything else. I am biased because I am the author ☺️

  • thefuzzchaosbear@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Not exactly new music, but Plex with Plexamp and it’s sonic adventure feature really changed my musical life rediscovering stuff I have on disk since decades now.

  • AccountSuspicious621@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I was in search of something similar. I have a discography on my servers and was looking for a self hosted solution to generate playlists according to some mood tweeking. Like a cron job at midnight creating 10 playlists from all my discography with some basic filtering: classical, metal, calm, high beat, etc…

    So far I found nothing.

    • dweymouth@alien.topBEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Navidrome can do this with smart playlists. I wouldn’t call it recommendations - it’s not smart enough from that - but you can absolutely create a smart playlist that will randomly pick a given number of songs from certain genres, that are (not) recently played, etc. that will refresh every time it’s accessed