Did you know I have a little @musicbrainz collection of #CreativeCommons music that I think is very good? Of course you didn't, I never told anyone.

https://musicbrainz.org/collection/1ab7ef90-dc76-4a72-acb0-5c8f011e6f1e

Ruffle through to see if you find stuff that's to your liking!

Of course, "high-quality" is very subjective, but you get the idea. Feel free to let me know if you'd like to curate the collection with moi.

#CCmusic #MusicBrainz

It's the 21st century. Here's the #stereo system I want:

• 4ch / #quadraphonic min.
• FLAC, Opus, MP3, m4a (plz stop using the latter 2)
• 5-300 disc
• USB 4 i/o
• BT 6.2 + all app. audio codecs
• WiFi 7
-- both on upgrable cards
• #Musicbrainz / Listenbrainz & FreeDB for cover art, meta data, scrobbles
• whatever API + daughterboard w/ AI chip for lyrics & translation
• m.2 drive for local db w/ metadata that recognizes the next time it plays + rips
• Lg replacable screen on front + DP
• all sorts of outputs
• copying, burning, ripping
• #InternetRadio
• full Rainbow Books spec (CD Text, SACD, etc etc)
• <$666

Ya know, good & properly made.

#audiophile

New Blogroll Post

“Uma’s New Playlist” by Thejesh GN

@thej: «We have updated Uma’s playlist on her radio. It’s no baby rhymes now. It has carefully selected songs. Currently, U2026 has songs from Kannada, Malayalam, English, and Italian. I have heard all of…»

#Life #AssistedByAI🤖 #CouchDB #ListenBrainz #MusicBrainz #Parenthood #WebComponents #blog #indieweb

https://thejeshgn.com/2026/06/05/umas-new-playlist/?ref=blr.indiewebclub.org

Have you ever wanted to receive new music releases from an artist by RSS? I have for a while and finally made this: https://git.benstokman.me/benjistokman/musicbrainz-rss

It's a simple daemon that serves RSS feeds over HTTP, gotten from the MusicBrainz API. Not that featureful but it works well.

#music #selfhosting #musicbrainz

Back when we did things like “buy a cd and use iTunes to turn the music into mp3s” I used MusicBrainz Picard a lot to get all the metadata I needed. And then I kind of forgot about MusicBrainz.
Turns out: it is still going strong. It does lack quite a lot of the music I listen to, though. Which might not be so surprising because while I (mostly) listen to pop, there is also a whole bunch of dangdut and Luk thung. So I guess I’ll be doing a whole lot of editing MusicBrainz.

And don’t ask me why. It is mostly so that my ListenBrainz profile doesn’t look bad.