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Re:I ditched Spotify and set up my own music stack by al_borland on Thursday September 04, 2025 @07:39PM (#45133481)
I assumed a lot of that was a disclaimer to try and avoid encouraging illegal activity outright.

Lidarr seems to be a cornerstone of the setup. I assume Bandcamp is for more obscure indie stuff that isn't as available from the pirates.

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Re:I ditched Spotify and set up my own music stack by theshrike79 on Friday September 05, 2025 @02:26AM (#45135536)
Lidarr isn't just for piracy, it's a good tool for keeping your library organised.

It does musicbrains matching, fixes the metadata based on that, fetches pretty pictures of the artist etc.

There are other tools for it, but Lidarr is what works for me.

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Re:I ditched Spotify and set up my own music stack by mvanbaak on Friday September 05, 2025 @04:25AM (#45136263)
They specifically mention: lidarr is connected to sabnzbd. They add 'to download music I bought' but I find that very hard to believe.

Since when do sites like band camp etc expose your bought library over usenet?

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Re:I ditched Spotify and set up my own music stack by dandersch on Friday September 05, 2025 @02:03PM (#45141592)
He is implying that he only downloads music from usenet that he purchased in some form somewhere else. Whether that is any less illegal, I don't know.
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