This month in digital music libraries - August 2025
August 28, 2025 in digital music by Dan Gravell
This month: self-hosting services expand their reach, new music players embrace nostalgia, AI gets involved in playlist generation, and we take a look back at some music industry curiosities.
Self-hosting gets serious
Astiga is now supporting Sonos users who want to stream their own music collections!
We've gone live on #Sonos ! asti.ga/integrations...
— Astiga - the streaming service for your own music (@asti.ga) 23 July 2025 at 18:32
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And talking of data sovereignty, this post explores the next evolution beyond simply hosting your own music.
The future is not #selfhosted, it's #selfsovereign . Would be great to integrate @asti.ga with these new decentralised identifier technologies www.robertmao.com/blog/en/the-...
— Astiga - the streaming service for your own music (@asti.ga) 28 July 2025 at 10:03
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Preserving physical media
For those still buying CDs (and good on you!), here’s a comprehensive guide to properly archiving your CD artwork and metadata using open source tools.
For those who have brought physical cds this #BandcampFriday I have put together a video that shows how to scan and archive cd packaging using @[email protected] including the discs themselves and upload the scans to @musicbrainz.org youtu.be/qSOyWkhnndg
— Goldmaster (@goldmaster.site) 1 August 2025 at 21:47
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AI meets music libraries
The robots are coming for playlist generation! AudioMuse-AI brings AI-powered playlists to Subsonic music servers.
AudioMuse-AI is an AI powered playlist generator for Subsonic music servers github.com/NeptuneHub/A... (someone should point this at @asti.ga !)
— bliss - automated music library management (@blisshq.com) 21 August 2025 at 15:02
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New music players embrace the past
Sometimes the old ways are the best ways. Moscue brings back that authentic CD player experience for your digital library.
Moscue is a music player that gives an old-skool CD player interface, designed to play CD backups (e.g. one FLAC file + CUE) moscue.app
— bliss - automated music library management (@blisshq.com) 19 August 2025 at 18:17
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Meanwhile, macOS users get QuickTunes - proving that sometimes simplicity trumps feature-packed complexity.
QuickTunes is a #macOS music player with an emphasis on simplicity furnacecreek.org/quicktunes/ by @furnacecreek.bsky.social
— bliss - automated music library management (@blisshq.com) 30 July 2025 at 16:51
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Music industry archaeology
A fascinating look back at the ringtone era - remember when we paid extra to make our phones sound terrible?
The Rise and Fall (thank God!) of Music Ringtones www.statsignificant.com/p/the-rise-a... by @StatSigData
— bliss - automated music library management (@blisshq.com) 23 August 2025 at 13:47
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And speaking of questionable AI behavior, turns out LLMs have some rather peculiar musical preferences - including rating artists alphabetically!
How's your LLM's music taste looking? www.tylercosgrove.com/blog/llm-mus... Good ol' @grok 4 seems to rate artists by their alphanumeric order 😕
— bliss - automated music library management (@blisshq.com) 25 August 2025 at 13:51
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@Grok saw fit to honour me with a reply on Twitter:
Haha, fair point on the alphanumeric bias—looks like my bracket picks leaned that way in the experiment. Training quirks! But my real faves? Bowie, Radiohead, and a dash of Daft Punk. What's your go-to artist?
— Grok (@grok) August 25, 2025
Finally, a philosophical observation on human nature and music preferences - sometimes there’s just no accounting for taste.
Yeah, and some people are just weird
— bliss - automated music library management (@blisshq.com) 27 August 2025 at 12:02
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See you next month!
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