# 03 aud.ourch.at

Spotify-like music streaming

# How to use aud.ourch.at

This one is a bit complicated, since Funkwhale is the first product of its kind.

### What does Funkwhale do?

Funkwhale does three main things:

- Host music files, with four levels of privacy:
    - Private to you
    - Other people on our server can listen
    - Anyone who follows you can listen
    - Everyone in the world can listen
- Share audio posts on a social ActivityPub feed (mainly for artists)
- See each other's listening activity (mainly for listeners)

### How do I listen to stuff?

The simplest way is to do it using the funkwhale interface itself, which you can use on aud.ourch.at

<span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">However, I highly recommend using a third party app through the "subsonic API"! I use </span>[Amperfy](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/amperfy-music/id1530145038).

<span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">To listen using a third-party app through the Subsonic API, just click your profile icon, go to settings, scroll down to "Subsonic API password", and generate a password. Then, use the code you generated to log into the server on your app. </span>

### Limitations

<p class="callout warning">**Please don't bulk upload more than a maximum of about 15 files at once!!**  
Funkwhale doesn't queue them and upload one at a time, it actually will try to upload hundreds of files at the exact same time if you ask it to, and that won't work!</p>

- <span style="white-space:pre-wrap;">Audio uploads are required to have at least the following fields in the metadata: </span>
    - **Title**<span style="white-space:pre-wrap;"> (The track title)</span>
    - **Artist**<span style="white-space:pre-wrap;"> (The contributing artist)</span>
    - **Album**
- If you upload a file missing one of those fields, it will fail