I rediscovered the joy of my own music collection by quitting Spotify and switching to self-hosted Navidrome.

  • ikt@aussie.zone
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    16 hours ago

    Quickly and effortlessly get some music playing that can act as a backdrop for your real activity such as working, driving, cooking, hosting friends, etc. Keep it rolling indefinitely. The particular songs don’t matter much. They are fungible as long as the general mood stays consistent.

    can’t relate

    i find new awesome music all the time, i only found i loved hardstyle 8 years ago, techno 5 years ago, vaporwave like a year ago

    This is a fantastic service if you’re not that interested in music and are just looking for the aural version of mediocre Ikea artwork to cover the bare walls of your day

    if you want to make it harder for yourself to discover new music then cool, but don’t imply that because you used spotify as a sort of cafe jazz background radio that we all use it like this

    • yeehaw@lemmy.ca
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      13 hours ago

      Agree, but this is why I do both. Sometimes I listen to my local stuff and having a great time because it’s more refined