>>42001232
It seems you're looking for a service which combines file-sharing, media transcoding, independent DB, etc.
Not impossible, but AFAIK the closest thing to that is Peertube, which is both super impressive that it works as well as it does, but does require some centralization and is hardly copyright resistant.
>Is a copyright-resistant (audio) file streaming network a thing?
As long as you self-host the streaming service with whatever audio files you have, it has been viable for a long time and you've got at least a dozen FOSS software projects that cater to it. As long as you use HTTPS there is no cause for anyone else to know exactly what you are streaming. I use Subsonic for my main setup, but I would recommend Navidrome if you're starting fresh. It works with Subsonic clients so you've got decent player options across most platforms:
https://www.navidrome.org
https://www.navidrome.org/demo/
>Streaming because it is easy to share music this way, I also have a limit on how much decimal bpm lolicore I can have on my 128GB SD card. That was a joke, but having limited space for music is a serious nuisance. At some point, I will have to choose between two artists, both of whom I like.
Yeah, I had a similar issue. With both Subsonic and Navidrome you can manually specify the transcoding pipeline, so you can host the original files on a home computer and then just transcode them as they are requested. For space conservation I'd recommend:
>Flac, WAV, other lossless -> Opus OGG 128kbps
>OGG, MP3, AAC, other lossy -> Just copy audio codec
>Also, why is Fopnu so obscure? It is essentially better Soulseek
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_effect
Pretty much that, people prefer what they know and what is known to be widely used over something new, even if it is technically better. Heck, I mainly still use torrents and private trackers and never tried Soulseek. But using it yourself makes it that much more likely that someone else will come across it and join in.