@cory Great post(s). I have a similar setup with Plex(amp). I've been using muspy.com to track new album releases for the bands I follow, but "Rate Your Music" also looks interesting.
@darekkay thank you! Plexamp is really great — I just wish their webhook output provided a bit more detail specific to the played track.
Muspy looks great! I'd never seen it before. I use MusicHarbor on iOS/Mac as well. I primarily enjoy the user created lists on RYM — e.g. there's one user who does annual death metal album roundups and I feel like I'm always missing something even though I follow the bands myself.
@cory where are you purchasing music? As I'd like to buy instead of stream but for a lot of the artists I like it's getting a CD, ripping it, and throwing it away which feels terrible for the environment. Or Amazon!
@tinheadned I've had a collection for so long that a lot of it was originally built from CDs — I've held on to my absolute favorite artists' CDs like Tom Waits and NoMeansNo but I resold a bunch to Amoeba in Hollywood back in the day.
A lot of the newer releases I pick up on Bandcamp since there's pretty wide adoption among punk/emo/metal labels and 7digital.com is surprisingly decent. I try to avoid Apple/Amazon wherever I can.
@cory@skinnylatte Plexamp is pretty amazing. While I still use some streaming services, 95% of my listening is with plexamp and my own music. The sonic analysis features are great.
@ezwal@skinnylatte it’s super impressive — it’ll match manually added similar artists and make interesting connections in top of that. Their radio works well too given that it’s bounded by your own curation.
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