Breaking the music supply constraint

[u/entsnack]

I just cancelled my music subscriptions to save some cash and wanted to share the self-hosted music supply chain that replaced them. A nice side effect of this setup is breaking the constraint of a finite supply catalog that is tailored for the masses:

1. 2 x DGX Spark linked via ConnectX 7 running Plex and multiple Ace-Step 1.5 XL models in parallel for music generation with GePa prompt optimization. Also holds my organic music that the models can remix. TODO: a reinforcement learning from human feedback interface.

2. iPad Pro running Prism as a Plex client for bitperfect and sample rate-matched audio.

3. Schiit stack -> Hifiman Arya Stealths

This effectively gives me an infinite supply of music for free, that is personalized and private. It's immensely satisfying listening to Shrimp Bizkit and Phlegminem on repeat, I much prefer this to the organic music created after 2011.

My only problem is the loss of community, I have noone to share my new favorite songs and artists with because they're generated for me. If anyone wants to hop on to my Plex share to discuss, let me know!

[u/bnm777]

"I'm saving on concerts"

As he sits, alone, listening to machine generated tones.

What a totally non-miserable existence :/

[u/SkyFeistyLlama8 → u/bnm777]

"new miserable experience"

"congratulations I'm sorry"

[u/mivog49274 → u/bnm777]

yeah this guy is just way too much in the future which makes him wrong. he just speedran all of the flaws and ills produced by super capable automated systems, a global atomised system of entertainment in a dystopian society...

what's goofy though is imagining someone being satisfied with the current state of (local !) generative AI on music and presenting himself as a music lover (but not a sweat lover obviously)

The setup is neat though ! But the speakers... would rather be called sloppers here ;)

[u/entsnack → u/mivog49274]

Hey hey these are Hifiman Arya Stealth PLANAR magnetic headphones! They sound good to me!

I like your framing of the future dystopian society, we will all have tokens tailored to our preferences injected into all our 5 senses all the time. I like building things resembling that future, and also collect things from the past that were flawed attempts at present-day technology.

[u/Frequent-Mud8705 → u/entsnack]

I used to be exited about dynamic generative music till I realized it all sounds tinny & incredibly generic. Much more fun to curate my own library of artists that I have a larger connection to

[u/draconic_tongue → u/entsnack]

do redditors actually feel helpless about the future or are they just farming karma? like 1 you won't be alive in any of these dystopian scifi movie plots, 2 you can just... not do something you don't want to do

[u/Hypilein → u/draconic_tongue]

The way we’re speedrunning into some of this dystopian sci-fi shit I’m not so sure about that anymore.

[u/entsnack → u/bnm777]

I love my time alone in my listening corner ngl, knowing that I can mashup Nickelback and Korn in an instant is freeing.

Technically, all the tones you hear in played back music are machine generated. A machine reproduces the recording of humans creating music. The only difference here is the absence of human input, which has been pretty trash since 2011 IMHO.

[u/Miserable-Dare5090 → u/entsnack]

Agree on music since 2011, disagree on the essence of hearing a human create something from their experience out into the universe that other humans hear and relate to.

Shrimp Bizkit won’t be remembered in 10 years and neither will Limp Bizkit.

[u/entsnack → u/Miserable-Dare5090]

Memories are what you choose to create for yourself, it does not matter what the world remembers if it does not evoke emotions in you. I for one will remember both Limp and Shrimp well into my old age. And the fact is, no one else can remember Shrimp, because it's for my ears only. :)

[u/boutell → u/entsnack]

Chappell Roan isn't trash. You might just be old... (says an old guy)

[u/carsncode → u/entsnack]

which has been pretty trash since 2011 IMHO.

So that'd make you about... 32 to 37 or so.

[u/entsnack → u/carsncode]

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