Music

The best music server, could be this one ..

Enjoy my fork of mStream Velvet

I have used mStream as based to provide for everything a music hoarder or music lover would like to see. And many features and functionalities are still in the roadmap.

You can use File Browsing based on folders / subdirectories, we have scanning the ID3tags, we  have a special ALBUM feature where you can decide what folders have albums so that the scanner does not have issues with all those wrongly tagged music (if you have that).

There are soo much new features and functionalities that I need multiple pages to explain them.
to see for yourself: use Docker or Node and you can use mStream Velvet. The best music server (but you  have to decide yourself)

Mstream Velvet a forked project to stream the music you want

After using many years mStream I forked the project when the initial release of SQLITE was introduced.
Missing many features in my music streamer, I decided to code it into my own fork using Claude Sonnet 4.6
No its not vibe coded as the main project was and is an aweful nice project, but slow progress over the last 2 years gave me the ability to think about features and functionalities I really wanted

  • Better scanning with Root folder and Child folders without double scanning
  • Wave form from music
  • Improved Auto-DJ functionality
  • Subsonic API support (needs testing)
  • Lyrics
  • Radio streams
  • Podcast feeds
  • Many new features you miss in other players
  • Built on Node
  • Discogs Album-art Search
  • Tag editing
  • LastFM similar song
  • LastFM scrobbling
  • Gapless Playback
  • Dice
  • Spectrum Analyzer, Mildrop etc..

And many more features.
As a previous user of many music streamers like Subsonic, Navidrome, this mStream Velvet version is my way of letting you know: you can try this and give me your feedback

There is a Dockerfile as well (whoeehooe) (and I do not like docker)
Check the github repository !

jaarmix 2007

Sinds 2001 wordt er vanaf oktober een lijst bijgehouden met informatie over de mooiste muziek mixen uit dat desbetreffende jaar. 

Ook dit jaar houdt mixfreaks.nl weer een lijst bij met de beste jaarmixen over het jaar 2007

Dus wil je weten welk radiostation of DJ  een mix maakt met de beste muziek uit het jaar 2007 bezoek dan jaarmix.nl

Wil je in contact komen met mede mix-freaks? abonneer je dan op de mixfreaks mailinglijst

How the Music Industry is fucking up

From a mailinglist: some 2 years ago you paid $ 1.49 for house tracks when ie. ordering from beatport.com. Due to Apple music store this became $1.99 for the latest tracks in 2005. From 2006 it is possible to download 320Kbps MP3 files but if you pay $1 more you could get the wav file.

Now Beatport upgraded to version 3.0. So are you living in Europe? Ah .. Euro-Style. Living in UK? UK-Style. Rest of the world in Dollars.

So as of today $ = €, so a track is €. 1.99 and for special ones: € 2,49. Wav format? Please add € 1 more please. So check what you are paying for 1 single track in ‘best’ quality. That’s even more than a single-cd.

If it was good quality it could be reasonable but the recordcompanies are messing up: encoding is bad, quality is bad, mastering is bad. What if you get bad quality? it is extremely hard to proove it’s bad quality and get your money back. 

Youtube and MySpace have to pay millions to the record industry

Record companies like Universal, who first use myspace or youtube for free promotional space for bands now demand millions for ‘potential’ losses.

My message to those Record Companies: first make sure you have your ‘masters’ proper stored and make sure the CD you release is properly mastered. What can I do when I feel ripped-off when hearing a vinyl copy on a CD? Without fans you were even not able to release music in utmost best quality because you (the record companies) cannot find where the original master is. So is it only about the ‘copyrights’? or can we as buyers also ask you to give us proper material?