I’ve gotten spoiled by Spotify’s ability to find music that I had no idea I would want to listen to until I hear it. I want to move back to a self-hosted model for my music needs, but everything I see right now requires me to know what I want to hear and download it before hand.
Is there any sort of selfhosted software anyone knows of that’ll maybe analyze my library and recent songs and generate playlists, connect to Lidarr and instruct it to download the songs?
My strategy is to use YouTube and SoundCloud’s recommendation engines solely to find artists - not listen. If I like the few samples I hear, I copy-paste their URL into ytdl-sub with their respective genre (https://github.com/jmbannon/ytdl-sub).
This will download their entire discography on a cron job and properly tag them. Then use your favorite self hosted music app to put that genre on shuffle (I use MusicBee). Smart-playlists and proper tagging go a long way for making ‘discovery’ playlists. If it’s an artist I really like, I will ‘upgrade’ them to a better quality via soulseek or torrents.
While it’s not fully automated, I’ve found this workflow to work better than anything else. I am biased because I am the author ☺️