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.

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[–] octobob@lemmy.ml 5 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] thatsnomayo@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] drkt@scribe.disroot.org 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Maybe downloads randomly fail because people block you for not seeding 🙃

[–] thatsnomayo@lemmy.ml 0 points 3 hours ago

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