By that I mean randomly generated playlists. Based on either one or multiple tags, songs or artists. Finite or infinite.
Ideally it would allow combining local sources with remote ones for discovering new music. Thinking along the lines of audioscrobbler, Bandcamp and SoundCloud. Maybe one could even hook into Spotify’s API, of they allow that.
Does something like this exist? I’m currently running Navidrome and while it’s pretty and functional, it’s very much a classic Mediaplayer, that just happens to be a website.
Currently using lidarr for library management and… err… acquisition.
Not sure what plex can do for playback/streaming. Looked at it for video streaming, but ended up not using it.
Check out Plexamp, the Plex music streaming client.
This is the way. I went plexamp after GPM died. I’ll never pay for another streaming music service. Also plexamp isn’t for only Plex pass folk now as well.
Yeah. Take a good look at plex as the server and Plexamp as the client. You can filter the music in an almost infinite way. Even by mood. Not saying it’s perfect but it’s the best self hosted way I have found.
https://www.plex.tv/plexamp/
I’m using Plex for all my self-hosted streaming (movies, TV, and music.) I’ve tried to move to jellyfin for the video streaming in the past, but for music, I’ve not found anything that works as well as Plex. There are things like Ampache and Navidrome that I have tried, but they didn’t fit my needs that well.
As far as finding new music that I like enough to add to my server, I generally just use YouTube or a paid streaming service. There are technically ways to download songs and albums straight from YouTube, if you are okay with opus format, but I normally try to find FLAC or physical media I can rip to put into my Plex.
Lidarr has an option to import lists from spotify and lastfm. I’ve used it to import the release radar and discover weekly playlists to lidarr, but haven’t figured out a way how to get the playlist generated in plex aside from manually importing the m3u file. Lastfm is also really good if you have scrobbling enabled on your plex, so you can keep your recommendations updated.
Plexamp is really nice, especially if you have plexpass so you can take advantage of the sonic analysis. Sonic analysis helps give it a spotify discovery experience with its artist mix, similar sounding artists/albums/tracks and the sonic adventure is always fun.