Soulseek is great, welcome. OT I can't really believe people suggest ripping music from Youtube as an alternative, how can you listen to such crappy quality music? It's usually compressed and then when you upload to youtube it's compressed again, then guess what it's compressed again when it's converted to an mp3 because youtube is using different compression. Do yourself and your ears a favor and seek out quality music.

Once downloaded, MusicBrainz Picard is going to be your best friend in organizing everything. Then choosing how you host it, I just have it in Jellyfin with my other media.

!soulseek@lemmy.dbzer0.com

Sounds like you might like https://github.com/Nezreka/SoulSync

It can automate grabbing your streaming platform playlists as files from soulseek.

A little off topic but I did this years ago and found rutracker.org quite useful. Just for harder to find stuff without getting into private trackers. It's just that this forum is insanely popular so you can often find old or niche music you can't find elsewhere. Just need a webpage translator extension to navigate.

Peculiar no one has mentioned the music specific *arr

I found slskd's GUI to be a bit nicer than standard soulseek, and it has plugins for the *arr suite.

That being said, I use it for downloading, then run musicbrainz Picard to mass rename/sort/fix metadata, skipping the music *arr module due to past issues with it.

For accessing my music remotely I use jellyfin.

Navidrome is great if you are looking for a self-hosted web streaming alternative.

Remember to have 2 backuo sources to store data

https://github.com/spotDL/spotify-downloader is another option

No idea what soulseek is. I've used newpipe and yt-dlp for downloading. Other than that I've just kept things simple with file based playback. I do use a few simple shell scripts to number the files sometimes.

Nice!! Did this about a month ago and I've felt better with myself ever since :)

My advice would be:

• Make a list of albums you really like, and start with those first. This is mostly to get in tune with what you actually like listening to, since storage can become a problem.
• I know you probably don't have the instant money to spare, but try to buy the music from the artist you love the most. You can pirate in the meantime, and you should definetly avoid paying problematic artists, but I think buying your music should be a goal you're aiming for; Remember, if you're not streaming their music, you're not gonna be supporting them in any way.
• Find a music player that matches your need. In my case I'm using Lollypop. An free open source player available on Linux that supports Scrobbling by default (had trouble installng plugins in other players lol). There are tons of music player for different needs, like multi-platform, support for multiple devices, lightweight, lots of customization, auto-playlists, etc.

So far this is how I've been doing it:

I just listed the alphabet A-Z. Then I went through every artist whose name begins with the corresponding letter, and downloaded their albums. I've already checked off every letter from A-S.

Still working through it, it's tedious I will admit, but should be worth it in the end.

Thanks for the suggestions all :-)

I saw someone mentioning "kew" in another comment thread the other day.

Here's a link:

https://github.com/ravachol/kew

I haven't tried it yet so I don't have feedback of my own. But on the surface seems pretty great as an indexation of one's digital music library.