[yegle]

Not that we should, but it's technically feasible to have a music streaming server with the torrent as the backend, and selectively download the part of the torrent in respond to on-demand streaming request from the client.

[uhfraid]

spotify used to do just that (stream p2p) until 2014 or so

https://www.scribd.com/document/56651812/kreitz-spotify-kth1...

[zanderz]

The person who wrote this Spotify p2p software also wrote uTorrent, which was bought by the company bittorrent after they struggled to make a C++ client on their own. The original bittorrent implimentation was in python, but they re-skinned uTorrent as bittorrent and shipped both for a few years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludvig_Strigeus

[johanyc]

https://www.csc.kth.se/~gkreitz/spotify/kreitz-spotify_kth11...

KTH link is better than scribd for downloading. though academic links are sometimes prone to link rot.

[willio58]

I recently got into the whole homelab *arr stack for things like movies and tv and while I know options exist for music I just don’t see the need yet price-wise. Spotify is still just cheap enough for me to not care enough. We’ll see how long this holds.

That being said it’s no secret Spotify and other streaming services barely pay even popular artists. Artists make money from live shows and merch. The fact that their music is behind a paywall at all could mean they make less money from some lack of exposure.

I do hope one day self-hosting music with an extremely easy setup with torrenting for sourcing is set up again. What I’m talking about exists to some extent, but it’s not trivial for most people.

[justatdotin]

for me its the arms trade.

Daniel Ek pours spotify wealth into next gen miltech.

sometimes I worry that I don't know what music means to other people but I am certain that to me it is antithetical to war culture.

[rasmus-kirk]

I'd rather download music and buy LP's, especially from smaller artists, than having a Spotify subscription. They get a much bigger cut and I get something tangible, if unpractical. The only ironic part is that a lot of small artists only print an extremely limited number of LP's, I don't understand why they don't let people purchase their stuff? Like maybe it's for the "limited feeling", but that just feels dumb as fuck.

[woile]

I'm paying for youtube music, but on the side I started buying records in bandcamp directly from artists and putting them in my jellyfin library. I do use lidarr for some older tracks. I think the ecosystem is starting to look good enough, where you can have your own personal spotify.

[pjerem]

Yeah we shouldn’t. But we may.

[nness]

a la "Popcorn Time."