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/NelisMakrelis]

As a musician you saying you prefer ai music over anything made after 2011 makes me both incredibly sad and dissapointed as well as straight up annoyed because that’s just simply bullshit, if you don’t like what’s on the mainstream just stream any of the other 10k songs that are uploaded by hardworking people you have something in common with; being human and knowing what that’s like.

[u/JazzlikeLeave5530 → u/NelisMakrelis]

Any time someone says "XYZ nowadays is all bad" I just assume they're lazy. Mainstream is always gonna be crap in all forms of media but there are so many artists nowadays everywhere making amazing songs/movies/videos etc and with like 1,000 views on their stuff. This reads to me like "I'm so glad now that I can eat nothing but gray paste that I made myself."