I'm looking into #ActivityPub platforms to share music on, and it seems like only #Funkwhale does that. But to be honest it does seem a little confusing to new users for me. I wonder if anyone's using #Peertube for audio files/music and what's their experience. Its youtube-like interface seems far more familiar to me, and I still mostly listen to music on youtube tbh (never made a spotify account). Any thoughts/suggestions welcome, thanks.
Su funkwhale ora gira l'ultima versione 1.4, ne abbiamo approfittato per risolvere alcuni problemi che rendevano instabile l'istanza.
Attualmente stiamo gestendo ben 90GB di file audio e #podcast!
E' una quantità enorme di materiale che viene reso disponibile gratuitamente nel #fediverso grazie ai @devol.
Questo causava un altissimo carico al server che ora dovremmo aver mitigato
Oggi lanciamo ufficialmente STEREO, un'istanza #funkwhale per l'underground italiano (e non solo).Ho preparato delle slide per comunicarlo su Instagram, ma le pubblico anche qui perché il messaggio è quello.
STEREO è nostro. È appena nato ma abbiamo una marea di dischi da caricare, proposti da amicǝ, alleatǝ e in generale gente che si è stufata di regalare bellezza a Spotify.
Oggi lanciamo ufficialmente STEREO, un'istanza #funkwhale per l'underground italiano (e non solo).
Ho preparato delle slide per comunicarlo su Instagram, ma le pubblico anche qui perché il messaggio è quello.
STEREO è nostro. È appena nato ma abbiamo una marea di dischi da caricare, proposti da amicǝ, alleatǝ e in generale gente che si è stufata di regalare bellezza a Spotify.
Thanks to a recommendation by @ophiocephalic, I am moving my music to tarrenvane@audio.liberta.vip, a #FunkWhale pod. My first channel, communitysongs@audio.liberta.vip, will feature the songs I've written for community song circles, which are also suitable as "pocket songs", songs to use for meditation, affirmation, etc.
#Funkwhale: dopo l'ultimo aggiornamento è diventato instabile e spesso diventa irraggiungibile, stiamo lavorando in 2 direzioni: lo spostamento su un altro server e la creazione di un'alternativa più adatta per i podcast (castopod).
#Invidious i.devol.it è stato colpito da youtube con un blocco a livello di server e quindi nonostante gli aggiornamenti è stato reso inutilizzabile.
Consigliamo una delle molte alternative:
Funkwhale potrebbe fungere da radio per i miei materiali musicali?
Per il momento ho caricato solo un paio di file non miei, per verificarne il funzionamento.
Per esempio, per far sentire una serie di madrigali meravigliosi di Alessandro Striggio, La caccia, che descrive una caccia di nobili nel mantovano.
Comincia con la fredda alba che esce 'dalle gelate braccia di Titone' - e dopo qualche minuto è tutto un susseguirsi di versi di animali, corna da caccia, lupi che arrivano.
Experimenting with streaming setups this week, mostly #Minecraft and a few #ClassicMac games like Lode Runner. Lag issues aren't really going away, although the bitrate tweaks I made a while back are helping. The other thing that's still an issue is finding a happy balance for stream audio. I've been using #Funkwhale to stream playlists of #CreativeCommons music in the background, but individual tracks sometimes drown out my voice. Compressor needed? 😕
what I'd love to see is #funkwhale also support basic posts ala #mastodon. I bet we could get a pretty cool pod going at ccmusic.social if this was the case. #ccmusic
#funkwhale 1.4.0 is on the way! We have some translations that are nearly complete, but we need some help getting them over the finish line.
If you have the time and are a speaker of Occitan, Dutch, Chinese (Simplified), Italian, Polish, Basque, Japanese, or Portuguese (Brazil), we'd really appreciate your help getting our translation strings to 100%
In case you weren't aware, I've been working with the #funkwhale project for over 5 years at this point. I first installed the software back in 2018 and started helping out people who wanted to install it, then I got involved with writing frontend code and documentation. It's no exaggeration to say I owe my entire career to the work I've done on the project. I wrote about this a bit in my blog a while back.
WOOOW. You guys. LOOK. What a sign. The #music signs are SIGNING.
I step out of emergency dental surgery (a toot for another day), and jump back into learning more about #icecast and #funkwhale. I immediately receive notification from nameless site, which alerts me to my friend leaving this very crucial comment on another friends post regarding #SpotifyWrapped and their underpayment of #musicians:
HOLD TIGHT YOU GUYS. I’M BRINGING THE LA UNDERGROUND LEGENDS.
Funkwhale has some issues handling artists, particularly in classical music.
I love the idea of Funkwhale, and I have been trying it out for a little while now. I've tried uploading Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2, but I stumbled across a few issues, particularly regarding artists.
The first thing that I noticed was that artists separated by commas get merged into one "artist". In my case, "Sviatoslav Richter, Warsaw National Philharmonic Orchestra" was registered as one single person. I'm guessing there is some workaround for this, but since comma separation is a widely used format, you're bound to get a lot of double artists.
Another thing I noticed was that composers and conductors don't get registered as artists. That is quite annoying, because the composer is the one you care the most about in classical music. Even when I go into the track details, I see no Sergei Rachmaninov or Stanisław Wisłocki, even though they're clearly tagged in the files.
Then, a smaller issue is different spellings for the same name: JS Bach and Johann Sebastian Bach are shown as two different artists. I understand that it is difficult to prevent given the decentralised nature of Funkwhale, but some form of reminder to keep it to some standard would be nice (perhaps the one used on Discogs).
Overall, Funkwhale is a great idea and I am going to use the hell out of it, but it needs some standarisation and support for multiple contributors.