Replacing TV and movie streaming services is pretty trivial, and typically one of the first projects for any new self-hoster, but music streaming services are a whole different beast. There's a growing need to replace the likes of Spotify, but there's no one-size-fits-all solution, and maintaining an on-disk music library
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Replacing TV and movie streaming services is pretty trivial, and typically one of the first projects for any new self-hoster, but music streaming services are a whole different beast. There’s a growing need to replace the likes of Spotify, but there’s no one-size-fits-all solution, and maintaining an on-disk music library will always be a lot of manual work. That being said, I’ve put together a stack that I’m happy with for now, and there was some interest in the full details, so I’ll try to slap together a tutorial here.

  • bulwark@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 days ago

    I pretty much have this same setup. It works great except Lidarr stopped being able to scrape because of their music brains cache server went down or something. So now I just have slskd hit a webhook upon album completion that runs Beets import.

    • hosaka@programming.devEnglish
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      3 days ago

      I’ve got the same setup and have been waiting for the lidarr cache API to get fixed but it has been taking ages. Are you running beets at the same time as lidarr and how does it compare functionality wise? Would you be able to switch from lidarr or are you planning to go back to it eventually? I realized that having to rely on stability of someone else’s cache server is not ideal.

      • bulwark@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        3 days ago

        I’ve been monitoring Lidarr on the reddit page and I think they might have fixed it. Beets replaces lidarr’s tagging and renaming function but as far as I can tell doesn’t have a plugin to monitor for new releases. I already had a docker app called rundeck that I use to launch scripts so it was easy to get it to launch beets to move the album into my library and fix any issues. It’s not 100% automatic, because sometimes beets isn’t certain it scraped the right album.

        • hosaka@programming.devEnglish
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          3 days ago

          That sounds like a good alternative for me. I didn’t use lidarr to pull in new releases, mainly to tag and organise the files on disk, I’d mostly import albums manually when I come across something I want. So I wanna drop an album in some import directory, get it tagged with listenbrainz data and placed in the right place. Is that achievable with beets?