I run my own funkwhale. But i’m not happy with it. It has so many bugs and drawbacks. Searching for remote content does not work well. Sometimes it finds it, sometimes it needs 2, 3 or 5 tries of searching for. Sometimes it does not find it. Searching is inconsistent. The UI is also inconsistent. To find what you want to click, you have to search a lot… It’s not possible to modify metadata from already uploaded music. Change mp3-tags locally an upload it again is the way… You csn not move audios between channrls and libraries. The permissions-concept is broken.
And the devs want to discuss about how to write about bigs, not about the bugs.
Been looking at it a little more over the past month or two.
There’s a lot of interesting music out there and nice to be able to wander around people’s music collections.
I’m not sure on how one should navigate Funkwhale land. I have an account on a pod but don’t know how I’m supposed to follow or interact with other pods I have bookmarked, it seems to only mention channels which are a bit useless.
Perhaps I have just misunderstood Funkwhale but it seems like it could be an amazing federated community for music. As it is I think I need an account for each pod or to just use listen not logged in. It seems more like a replacement for jellyfin/navidrome and the like with some fediverse functionality as opposed to a world on federated instances sharing and collaborating.
Found a forum post that explains how to add and follow other libraries, which is nice. The libraries I’d been trying to follow don’t seem to have public share links displayed, the ones in the example work.
Appreciating the sharing side of FunkWhale. There’s a lot of potential and some goodsounding pods out there. It has the basics. It works as a personal or social music pod, pods can interact, subsonic & maybe other activity pub stuff too. Most importantly it has content, lots of it.
Currently listening to another pod directly from my home pod for the first time, which is nice.
It doesn’t matter because it’s federated so you can search all across the funkwhale. You can search for a pod with rules that are comfortable for you but for the first time I don’t think it’s matter. I used this pod
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