I wish apple music would directly support Sonos Streaming, i'd switch over from Spotify in a heartbeat if they did Sonos direct like Spotify does.
Not switching everything to apple play..
Apple Music is the last library focused music service
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Re: Apple Music is the last library focused music service
#142Until they're not anymore. Let's get off this stupid ride, we don't need big centralized services to tell us how to consume the content we're ostensibly paying for. Navidrome on a home server, hooked up to a big ol hardrive, ultrasonic on your phone connected to navidrome (offlining supported), support artists you really like by buying their shit off bandcamp, rip everything else cause let's be honest these artists a…
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#144Google Play Music was extremely album-focused, but their move over to YouTube Music has basically scrapped that. GPM even let you modify the metadata for albums; I had used this to strip out things like "(2020 Remaster Special Gold Edition)" from album names, and to cut "bonus" tracks off of albums (nothing as fun as playing an album and then getting a two hour long spoken word interview with Quincy Jones), and final…
Like several other comments here, I had the same experience as you and decided to go with plex. What no one mentioned is that plex allows you to add a tidal library in addition to your self hosted content. It's not a perfectly seamless experience because you have to mark tidal albums one at a time to add to your self hosted library and I don't think you can cache them offline on plexamp (for android at least), but it's the best I've found.
I'm hoping to give Roon a try someday, but plex works well enough that I haven't quite gotten up the activation energy: https://roonlabs.com/downloads
Re: Apple Music is the last library focused music service
#145Google Play Music was extremely album-focused, but their move over to YouTube Music has basically scrapped that. GPM even let you modify the metadata for albums; I had used this to strip out things like "(2020 Remaster Special Gold Edition)" from album names, and to cut "bonus" tracks off of albums (nothing as fun as playing an album and then getting a two hour long spoken word interview with Quincy Jones), and final…
Google Play was ideal because I could upload any of my own music and it was part of my library, accessible anywhere in the world. Does any service like that still exist? I'm stuck with Spotify, which lacks dozens and dozens of albums that are important to me, and it won't let me upload them myself.
I've been keeping an eye on https://ibroadcast.com
It fills my use case precisely and has replaced GPM. They host my own library (various upload/sync clients), with a reasonable web/app+offline experience.
it has chromecast support, tag editing and all sorts.
I'm a little concerned how slow they've been to monetise. Free version transcodes to 128kbps, eventual paid offering ("around $3.99 USD per month", currently free) offers original-quality streaming. Not aware of any library or bandwith limitations.
Edit: avert your eyes - their landing page is atrocious but once logged in things are much better
Re: Apple Music is the last library focused music service
#146Earlier quoted context omitted.
> you can't do this on iOS I beg your pardon? First of all, a nitpick: > Even if you could get a phone with a large enough SDcard, natively ...iPhones don't use SD cards for storage. They never have. They have internal flash storage. - With that out of the way: I have a 10,000 song collection that I sync to my iPhone. It's only about 60GB of music. iPhones come with up to 512GB of internal storage, and there's an opt…
>512GB of internal storage That you have to share with photos/videos, apps, downloads, and everything else. >syncing your music to convert higher-bitrate music to 128kbps (or 192 or 256kbps, your preference) AAC files. Yeah, see - this isn't really your music collection then but reliance on Apple's Library and them "matching it" with what they have. I could never sync from their library b/c their library wouldn't hav…
> Yeah, see - this isn't really your music collection then but reliance on Apple's Library and them "matching it" with what they have.
What? You just transfer your files directly, exactly as you could with an ancient iPod or whatever.
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#147Earlier quoted context omitted.
All the features of "iTunes Match" are included in Apple Music as long as you have "Sync Library" turned on. For a while there was a subtle difference in that music uploaded to Apple Music would have DRM applied to it, and iTunes Match would not, but this is no longer the case.
Is DRM applied to iTunes Match too now? That's unfortunate.
lol no, the other way around. Music you upload remains DRM-free.
Re: Apple Music is the last library focused music service
#148Google Play Music was extremely album-focused, but their move over to YouTube Music has basically scrapped that. GPM even let you modify the metadata for albums; I had used this to strip out things like "(2020 Remaster Special Gold Edition)" from album names, and to cut "bonus" tracks off of albums (nothing as fun as playing an album and then getting a two hour long spoken word interview with Quincy Jones), and final…
Google Play was ideal because I could upload any of my own music and it was part of my library, accessible anywhere in the world. Does any service like that still exist? I'm stuck with Spotify, which lacks dozens and dozens of albums that are important to me, and it won't let me upload them myself.
Youtube music subscription was supposed to do this, with your previous Google Play library, if you made the transition. Using Google Home devices. I plan to pony up for that someday when things settle a bit for me, so hope I do get this service.
Just checked and they still have my music "stored" waiting for me.
Re: Apple Music is the last library focused music service
#149Spotify, Apple Music, Tidal, Google Music or whatever now is called. I tried them all. They are all the same to me. There is one big thing that all these streaming services are missing: *METADATA* Give me all the album by this label, all the songs produced by X or all the songs where in Y plays drums. All the albums recorded at some studio in the year Z. With tools like this I will spend years (and whatever money) on…
please god, do not buy out discogs and leave it the hell alone. i already stopped last.fm after CBS ruined it. I've used every music service and quit for a multitude of reasons. Libraries that "have everything" but manage to be missing albums or have albums takne down all the time, "shuffle" functions that don't work (Spotify), apps that prioritize and shove music in your face that you have no interest in (Tidal), or…
I second this. Discogs is amazing in the way that only independent websites can be, and not just as a database (which would be locked up by the buyer, stripped of its more interesting and obscure data and turned into a feature for the buyer’s “platform”), but also as a marketplace.
Re: Apple Music is the last library focused music service
#150Apple is also the only service to get gapless playback right, near as I can tell. Since adding lossless (I care less about "high-res" or "spatial"), they are far and away my favorite.
EDIT: In case anyone is wondering why gapless playback is important, the entire genre of classical music pretty much demands it. Also, anyone who listens to popular music where one track seamlessly leads into another will know how frustrating it is to not be able to stream an album as the artist intended it to be heard.