Free my music!

May 29, 2020 8:18 PM

A fair portion of my music has been uploaded to Google music. It does not seem easy to upload the rest and I would prefer to get away from being dependent on Google for a number of reasons anyway. I will pay for online storage and will pay for automatic ID of songs. What are the best current options for someone with a large number of albums?

Difficulty level: Running Linux, but can spin up a version of Win 10 if necessary. Need to share with partner and kiddo, so... maybe 10 devices? (all Linux or Android). Automatic song tagging/identification is a must.

I seriously want this to be the last time to upload, so any service where I can export later would be ideal.

posted by a non mouse, a cow herd to Technology (4 answers total)

Best answer: Sorry I can't recommend any in particular as my family currently just plays music from a shared NFS drive, but setting up an instance of funkwhale on a private VPS is on my list of todo's. This site is also very handy for finding alternatives. I can recommend Musicbrainz Picard to help maintain tags and file names independent of where you end up storing your music.
posted by Poldo at 5:08 AM on May 30, 2020

https://www.cloudbeatsapp.com. This is what Grooveshark used to be. You are looking for something like that, aren't you? Some more https://vox.rocks, https://www.plex.tv etc.

Or checkout these - http://ampache.org, http://kplaylist.com.
posted by amar at 5:10 AM on May 30, 2020

I have the same challenge (Linux, Google Music Linux client is broken) and I couldn't find a commercial service, so I put Plex on a Raspberry Pi and it works great.
posted by COD at 5:10 AM on May 30, 2020 [1 favorite]

Best answer: Hm, if you're okay with serving your music up yourself, I'd recommend a Plex server. I've had one running for years, and it works really well remotely, especially for music. (Obviously, streaming video is a harder proposition, but it actually works pretty damn well for that too!)
posted by nosila at 1:26 PM on June 1, 2020