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by Findeton 2051 days ago
I cannot upvote Funkwhale enough. I've had the need for something like this for a long long time now. A decade ago I was lucky to have my own desktop computer (before it was a shared one with my brother, before that I had just my parent's from time to time). Nowadays, between the smarphone, the work laptop, my desktop and my laptop I cannot possibly have all my music available all the time. And I don't like using spotify where I don't feel I own the songs and they get dropped from my lists. I used to be a fan of grooveshark, but that went down. Now I can have my pod and share it with my friends? On my own server? Accessible everywhere? I'm in.

Where can I donate some money?

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> Where can I donate some money?

https://funkwhale.audio/support-us/

(not affiliated with funkwhale, just found the link from their site)

> I've had the need for something like this for a long long time now.

Note that there are a few projects like this one, for example Subsonic or Mopidy.

(Funkywhale certainly looks nice though!)

Throwing this out here - Airsonic is the current FOSS iteration of the software https://airsonic.github.io/

Subsonic went closed, and the rebrand to LibreSonic had some unrest with the maintainer, so Airsonic is leading the way in the line of *Sonics.

Or if you want something that can run easily on a RaspberryPi but still gives you Subsonic compatibility, try https://github.com/sentriz/gonic
This is a great link, I've been looking for a pi project and a music server sounds really spiffy.