We have Stremio for movies and TV, which works flawlessly by pulling from different sources (add-ons) including torrents into one clean UI. But when it comes to music, the options are either paying for Spotify/Tidal or dealing with clunky, manual setups.
I’ve seen apps like ViMusic or Innertune, but they are mostly just YouTube Music frontends. Soulseek is a p2p service and the usability is horrible.
I’m talking about a true, modular aggregator. That uses torrents and lossless databases.
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.
Any and everything is on soulseek
Eeeewww ! YouTube’s audio quality is TrasH ! If you want to respect your ears and those arround you…Just dont download musique from there… It’s not worth it !
I’m not talking about flac grade quality… But minima off 192k mp3…
I know this is logically true and I’d probably immediately hear the difference with flacs (and I do have a few of one of my favorite artists, but they’re the exception) but I’ve been listening to a library full of YouTube Rips for so long that I’m scared I’d never be able to go back if I started listening to all of my music in flac… and then I’d need Navidrome instead of being able to syncthing-sync a ~5Gb folder of about 3,000 youtube rips onto every device i listen to music on 😬
It was hard enough migrating from Streaming back to an actual audio library. I still come across songs where my conversion script grabbed the wrong YouTube video for a song, so I have the live version or a cover/remix that’s just tagged like the actual album version. Maybe beets could help find those? But I still shudder to think of using beets. It’s going to be time consuming and probably very frustrating, based on my only other attempt at using it (granted, I didn’t spend too much time on it before throwing up my hands and giving up before)