Explo is a program for Subsonic-API compatible software, that aims to offer an alternative to Spotify's "Discover Weekly". It automates music discovery by downloading recommended songs based on your listening history. Using ListenBrainz as a discovery source and Youtube for downloading tracks.
Explo has 2 discovery modes, the preferred (and default) one gets songs from a playlist made by ListenBrainz, second one gets them through ListenBrainz API (weekly recommendations are quite poor). they are toggeable via the .env file
- Automatically gets and downloads music recommendations.
- Adds metadata (title, artist, album) to the downloaded tracks
- Creates "Discover Weekly" playlist with downloaded songs.
- Compatible with Subsonic-API systems.
- Subsonic-API compatible system (e.g., Navidrome, Airsonic).
- ffmpeg installed on server
- YouTube Data API key.
- Scrobbling to ListenBrainz setup
- Download the latest release (make sure it can be executed)
- Make an "local.env" file in the same directory and fill it (refer to sample.env for options)
- Add a Cron job that executes Explo weekly
crontab -eInsert this to the last line to execute Explo every tuesday at 00:15 (ListenBrainz updates its discovery db at monday)
15 0 * * 2 cd /path/to/explo && ./explo-amd64-linuxPS! If using playlist discovery, don't run the program more than once per day (eats up youtube API credits). For testing, change LISTENBRAINZ_DISCOVERY variable to a random value
Contributions are always welcome! If you have any suggestions, bug reports, or feature requests, please open an issue or submit a pull request.