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Why media fans want to escape algorithms with CDs, DVDs and vinyl

70 points · 109 comments · beardyw

pkthunder · 1790939090 · focus · HN ↗
I’ve been going through my own personal revival of physical media - mostly audio. I don’t miss streaming at all.
Every CD I buy gets ripped to a NAS that hosts the music behind Navidrone where I can stream to my vehicle using Play:Sub (thanks to Tailscale for enabling all of this to work for me!).
I am just so enamored with being able to get the best of both worlds - my own music, anywhere.
I do wish I could figure out some sort of recommendation system to find new magic, though. Obviously not to steam new/unowned songs, just to point me in a direction next time I go to the store.
1. komali2 · 1790942431 · focus · HN ↗
  > I do wish I could figure out some sort of recommendation system to find new magic, though. Obviously not to steam new/unowned songs, just to point me in a direction next time I go to the store.
  Navidrome can scrobble to <a href="https://listenbrainz.org/" rel="nofollow">https://listenbrainz.org/ which has a recommendations mechanism
  Or set up "soulsync" and just use the library scanning, scrobbling, and recommendations / artist watching features if you don't want to pirate the music as well.

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