Hello everyone! Some of you might remember DroppedNeedle, my self-hosted, all-in-one music app I've been building since October last year.

Just a quick update because the last few weeks have been big: DroppedNeedle now runs on BrainzMash, a public read-only MusicBrainz pool, instead of hammering the official endpoint at one request per second. In practice that means search, artist pages, and library identification are all massively faster than they were. It's community-run, free, needs no API keys, and honestly it's a fantastic thing for the music community that it exists. A few other projects like Aurral and Multi Scrobbler run on BrainzMash as well, which is great to see.

The project is coming up on a year old and I'm still working on it daily - still self-hosted, still its own library engine with no Lidarr needed. If you tried it a while back and bounced off the speed, now's a good time for another look.

For those of you new to DroppedNeedle: it combines library management, discovery, requests, downloads, and playback - in the browser or through apps like Manet and Arpeggi.

Would love for you all to give it a go. Bug reports and suggestions welcome here, on GitHub or in the Discord.

Thanks all 🙂

GitHub - code, install guide, screenshots, etc

Discord - follow along with development

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