It's growing

I have over 4000 songs just in one playlist on my phone. I've never used a streaming app.

I try and find new music via Fediverse, Tiny Desk series, music acts from shows like: SNL, Tonight Show, etc. And of course I'll check Billboard top charts once in a while.

Which places can you recommend in the fediverse?

What about torrents or something? It used to be so big. And now I don't see a lot of music anymore. Everybody went to steaming service, it's awful.

Just a couple on my subscription list. I'm sure there's plenty others.

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There's definitely torrent sites.

Even a certain famous pirate still has a site.

Yeah true. I was mainly talking about music torrents. Which used to be big as well.

Of course there used to be limewire and what have you not as well in the past. Which is maybe not that popular anymore. There is frostwire as well today.

I like streaming apps for discovering new music. I have over 10k songs on Plex/jellyfin. As I listen on Spotify, I download to there

Maybe there's more to it, but I really don't get the last note about Tidal: Essentially, if you use Tidal, you should know the CEO is has a large ego and is a crypto bro.

I'm sure he's very annoying, but I'm not inviting him to my house for dinner.

Finding music is one thing. How to you get it to your phone as a file?

Personally, despite the hate for YT.. maybe it works in FOSS replicants, I use a YouTube MP3 converter.

After I have several conversion downloads, I email them to myself and save to phone memory.

I really want to do this, but I have yet to find a self-hosted app that has the features from iTunes that I love: smart playlists (with an easy to edit interface), play stats (last played, last skipped, play count, skip count), and editable metadata (can change genres of the a song or several songs within the app).

Easily editable smart playlists would be table stakes for me. I can get by without the rest, though I'd be less happy than with iTunes.

(Please somebody prove me wrong so I can go back to self hosting my music library)