Ive been running a private funkwhale for me and my friends since november ‘19 and its been great. Works lovely with play::sub for ios. Have about 300gb of music hosted and 4 daily users :)
Recommended for those wanting to ditch spotify. Redirect the subscription fee to buying an album or two each month. Get a few friends to do the same. The artists get much more royalties and you have a more personal collection.
Last.fm tells me that in the last 2 years I've listened to songs from 2,015 different albums (almost exclusively via Spotify). That goes up to 4,238 in the last 5, and increases by a few hundred per year thereafter.
The top 50 albums over those 2 years are a quarter of my listens, the top 100 are just over a third.
Even if two-thirds of that album count is bad metadata (e.g. the same song counted against multiple different albums/compilations/etc.) it would still be prohibitively expensive to consume anywhere near the same breadth of content if I had to acquire perpetual rights (from Bandcamp/iTunes/etc.) for everything rather than effectively renting them out for a single play (from Spotify).
The other thing I like about the streaming model is that artist remuneration correlates to how impactful their work subsequently is to my life (i.e. how many times I listen to it both during discovery and then over the subsequent years/decades) rather than how effective their marketing is at convincing me to buy the album up front.
Is there an android app that works well with this? Youtube Music has killed most of the usefulness that Google Play Music had (e.g., no way to edit id3 metadata, no way to browse by genre, and a thousand other tiny papercuts) and I'm really looking to stop using it.
Funkwhale is incredible. I comment every time it's posted here because it's truly one of my favorite technologies out there. I ran a personal pod for around a year, and lately I've been thinking of running one for my home.
The project is also looking for maintainers, as the lead developer might not be able to contribute for much longer. If you have the inclination to do so, definitely reach out to them :)
I noticed they call their groups "pods" and I thought that was poor naming because that's what Kubernetes calls their groups. Then it hit me and I looked up what a gathering of whales is called, and sure enough, it's a "pod". It gave me a little chuckle.
Funkwhale seems to focus on the social aspect of sharing music among a group, and that's cool if you're into that, but for hosting my personal music library just for myself I like Airsonic: https://airsonic.github.io/
I really miss the act of browsing someones music collection like you could do with Napster and Soulseek around the turn of the century. Definitely going to check this out!
The whole idea of this seems cool but I don't really get the value of it as a Spotify replacement. Though I haven't tried. Spotify to me is a source of music I don't already have. I don't understand the value of putting my existing music on a website. I mean I guess there's some, but not a ton.
Given the social/federation aspects, it seems like it's a much better replacement for Soundcloud. You could use it to distribute freely licensed stuff (assuming you're respecting copyrights) or more importantly your own music as a musician (which I am not). I could see a lot of value in interoperating with Mastodon. You "boost" a new song by a musician you follow. Some of your Mastodon followers see it and listen and comment directly on the song. Others look at the person's Funkwhale profile for a better catalogue view to explore further. Etc. Could be a great future.
I like the project, but the Code of Conduct is literally the only reason I will not be trying Funkwhale out.
I am very respectful towards homosexuals, transsexuals, women in highly technical roles, people struggling with disabilities or mental illnesses, am very open to interesting political discussion even with my ideological opponents, and always ready to change my mind if proven wrong.
But I have a very bad feeling any social-justice driven CoC can and will be abused, and in the long term no one is safe from being labeled a racist, misogynist, homophobe, transphobe or any currently fashionable -ist or -phobe one day.
When there's a sufficiently malevolent will, there's a way.
Is this federated or p2p? It would be amazing to have something like SoulSeek but in a music player (Spotify) format. I have rather eclectic taste when it comes to music and Spotify is missing a lot of good stuff.
It doesn't. Funkwhale is not meant to be run as a service for a large number of users. People running a pod should be cleared by fair use, much like someone with a iTunes library that is accessible through the home (or company) intranet.
Is this peer2peer? I am thinking about a tool for Podcast that federates and is p2p like e.g. peertube only with all the Podcast rss Features + listeners can choose a ratio how many copys of the Podcast they want to distribute
I personally use Jellyfin's music integration of my selfhosted music streaming. It works fine, but still has a few kinks to work out. FunkWhale seems like the way to go if you're just looking for music streaming.
WOW, I can't believe we went this long without this. I knew these old IDE hard drives full of MP3s from the 90s/early 2000s would come in handy someday!
The project is lovely and exactly what I'd need. If only it was possible to buy a raspberry Pi with everything configured and 32 GB of memory for music...
Most instances I've seen are used to host music uploaded by the original authors, or collections of CC-licensed music, etc. I actually have yet to see anyone using funkwhale to share music publicly they didn't create themselves or have permission to share. It does have a private mode for that, so you could upload your music collection and share it with just a few friends or something.
(Edit: I tried funkwhale out as a way to privately share a small online radio station's music library with its DJs. It didn't suit our needs ultimately -- I felt the UI & search / filtering affordances were lacking for our use case -- but you could use it in a hybrid public/private way like that if you want. Libraries have some access control features.)
[+] [-] casi|5 years ago|reply
Recommended for those wanting to ditch spotify. Redirect the subscription fee to buying an album or two each month. Get a few friends to do the same. The artists get much more royalties and you have a more personal collection.
[+] [-] denismi|5 years ago|reply
The top 50 albums over those 2 years are a quarter of my listens, the top 100 are just over a third.
Even if two-thirds of that album count is bad metadata (e.g. the same song counted against multiple different albums/compilations/etc.) it would still be prohibitively expensive to consume anywhere near the same breadth of content if I had to acquire perpetual rights (from Bandcamp/iTunes/etc.) for everything rather than effectively renting them out for a single play (from Spotify).
The other thing I like about the streaming model is that artist remuneration correlates to how impactful their work subsequently is to my life (i.e. how many times I listen to it both during discovery and then over the subsequent years/decades) rather than how effective their marketing is at convincing me to buy the album up front.
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This could be really cool especially for a lot of older music that isn't on streaming platforms.
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The project is also looking for maintainers, as the lead developer might not be able to contribute for much longer. If you have the inclination to do so, definitely reach out to them :)
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(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grooveshark, for the youngins.)
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There's a project that makes this data available as linked data: https://wiki.musicbrainz.org/LinkedBrainz
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Given the social/federation aspects, it seems like it's a much better replacement for Soundcloud. You could use it to distribute freely licensed stuff (assuming you're respecting copyrights) or more importantly your own music as a musician (which I am not). I could see a lot of value in interoperating with Mastodon. You "boost" a new song by a musician you follow. Some of your Mastodon followers see it and listen and comment directly on the song. Others look at the person's Funkwhale profile for a better catalogue view to explore further. Etc. Could be a great future.
[+] [-] icy|5 years ago|reply
As an aside, I'm glad I didn't bother with Funkwhale: https://funkwhale.audio/en_US/code-of-conduct/.
[1]: https://github.com/sentriz/gonic
[+] [-] Toutouxc|5 years ago|reply
I am very respectful towards homosexuals, transsexuals, women in highly technical roles, people struggling with disabilities or mental illnesses, am very open to interesting political discussion even with my ideological opponents, and always ready to change my mind if proven wrong.
But I have a very bad feeling any social-justice driven CoC can and will be abused, and in the long term no one is safe from being labeled a racist, misogynist, homophobe, transphobe or any currently fashionable -ist or -phobe one day. When there's a sufficiently malevolent will, there's a way.
Just wanted to say that.
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I've been thinking about how I'd do this to ditch my library on what was Google Play Music and is now YouTube Music.
[1]: https://audius.co/
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(Edit: I tried funkwhale out as a way to privately share a small online radio station's music library with its DJs. It didn't suit our needs ultimately -- I felt the UI & search / filtering affordances were lacking for our use case -- but you could use it in a hybrid public/private way like that if you want. Libraries have some access control features.)
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