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

However, I highly recommend using a third party app through the "subsonic API"! I use Amperfy.

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.

Limitations

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!

• Audio uploads are required to have at least the following fields in the metadata:
  • Title (The track title)
  • Artist (The contributing artist)
  • Album
• If you upload a file missing one of those fields, it will fail