Too many releases, too much metadata.
New music ingestion has an actual department staffed with people at those companies. The pirates just can’t keep up.
The pirates just can’t keep up.
You should check out private music trackers. The pirates are literally racing to get new releases up there. Maybe they aren't quite as complete as some music services but I think it would be hard to argue that they aren't keeping up.
Care to share some? Public trackers are trash for music.
Yeah like you can listen to anything on red
The pirates just can’t keep up.
They - or we - can with AI..
They’re already using AI triage.
You still need a human in the loop for validation because AI loves to give false matches.
Fwiw, soulseek's usability is not horrid. I have about 8500 albums, mostly downloaded from there and bandcamp. I also combined libraries with a few friends over the years, which is always fun to just bring over a hard drive and share.
Yes, it's more work but with things like Plexamp I have all the music I could ever want and it works wonderfully when remote, even does the whole "radio" suggested artists thing within my own library.
Another friend of mine has 38k albums. Sometimes I'll change the source to his and bop around.
What good is piracy unless you're amassing a huge server full of all your favorite media
I mean I have like 300gb of music ripped from Soulseek just with my phone in the past few months, but that doesn't change the fact I'm using an app that looks like it's from 2010 (which is awesome I made this post as an excuse to plug it with the new update) to do it. The usability does suck, downloads randomly fail because I can't upload with my setup & honestly I have no desire to contribute to a proprietary network, I seed stuff I find on there that I like on normal torrents
Maybe downloads randomly fail because people block you for not seeding 🙃
That's what I mean. I see the notifs, it's just on the user end like "my downloads randomly fail and I have to try a diff source" I get why it happens. I just think the seed/leech model is saner
Not enough people seed or distribute music. The only good way I know is downloading from YouTube, but YouTube is working hard on blocking this too.
I don’t know what your experience with soulsseek has been but I’ve loved it. However, if you think the experience should be more seamless and integrated, you should program a bridge for slskd and navidrome that runs the downloaded media through MusicBrainz Picard or beets before putting it in the Navidrome library.
Idk about the usability of stremio because I've never used it, but I type my music into one search box, 99% of the time click the first or second result in the result list, and about 10 seconds later it's in my music folder. I really don't know what I would improve there.
That annas archive Spotify dump plus streamio would go a long way.
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