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‘Grand Theft Auto VI’ Going Digital-Only Is a Car Crash for Physical Media (www.hollywoodreporter.com)
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[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (2 children)

You can also buy music directly from artists on Bandcamp Fridays where they still get 100% of the sale going to the artists. I was afraid that would stop when it got sold but it's not dead yet.

Also, another option is to have a locally hosted Jellyfin or Plex (ha) server and stream to yourself. My music collection is over 600GB so there's not many phones that can hold it all.

I also self-host a music scrobbling service with Maloja and Multi-Scrobbler docker containers so I can get similar types of stats as last.fm while also having more privacy. I was able to import my stats from last.fm to it as well.

[–] LazyPsychonaut@lemmy.zip 3 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Hell yeah I never knew that! I’ll do that for sure, I love supporting the artists directly & not having it go into someone else’s grubby hands. Thanks!

Also very interesting on everything being self hosted, might have to look into that myself as my collection is growing rapidly haha

[–] Venator@lemmy.nz 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

The point of last.fm for me is the recommendations more than the stats themselves, are you able to run a similar recommendation engine based on some musician database or similar?

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Yeah unfortunately it does not have the same recommendation engine, just listening stats. I haven't looked for a recommendation engine because I hadn't thought about it. I'll look to see if there's anything like that now.

EDIT: I always forget about ListenBrainz. Not self-hosted, but definitely a good last.fm alternative that includes artist recommendations.

https://listenbrainz.org/