Hey everyone.

I'm just... so over Spotify. The clients are crap, the whole company does not give a flying fuck about anything but profits, and in top of that some of my favorite songs have been getting randomly censored.

The problem is, I can't just "download everything locally" and be done with it. I'm ok with piracy, and I have a truenas scale box that can handle it, but I can't give up algorithmic recommendations. I listen to music 6-14h a day, I'm a huge melomaniac, and I thrive on finding new artists and genres every day. Spotify's algorithm has gotten insanely good in my experience over the last couple of years, to the point when it can just autoplay something after one of my songs and 90% of what it plays are bangers for me.

So what can I do? I have basically around half a year to figure something out (kind of an arbitrary deadline, basically Spotify only supports up to 10k songs in a playlist and I'm at 9k right now - my estimate is another 6 months to fill up the remaining 1k)

Is it even feasible to build a good recommendation algorithm that runs on your own hardware with your own library?

I've thought about using stuff like last.fm to automatically fetch songs to download with something like an *arr service, but it feels like it's just a temporary solution, especially now that Paramount got acquired and last.fm's future is uncertain.

Anything you guys can recommend? Thanks in advance.