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I don't want streaming music, I just want to stream my music

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Re: I don't want streaming music, I just want to stream my music

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Post by jamesfinlayson »

tastysandwich wrote: post #82

Oh man I thought I was the only one who still had a carefully curated digital library... I threw out my CDs a long time ago, but my digital library is my baby. I've been curating this since I was 10. It's who I am! Most of the time, you only need to listen to music on your phone or your computer, right? My main collection (mostly FLAC) is on a NAS with RAID. But then I've got some scripts that maintain a copy of that…

I have a limited enough music taste that buying what I like will be much cheaper in the long run than paying for a monthly service. I briefly used a family member's Spotify once and the UI was utterly enraging - I. thought there was something wrong with me until I started seeing the same comments echoed here on HackerNews.

Re: I don't want streaming music, I just want to stream my music

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Post by acomjean »

computerdork wrote: post #96

I know the OP said iTunes Match wasn't working for him because iTunes would change his meta data, but I use it for streaming my own and purchased content (works great) and also have changed the meta data on a bunch of albums. It works really well 99% of the time. Yeah, he is right that for some albums, iTunes does mess up my meta data, but at least for me, it's the exception instead of the rule. Would prefer to use a…

It works pretty well, I use it but its not a great experience navigating and searching on the iphone.

I like to shuffle, then jump to an artist album if I come across one I haven't heard in a while. You think clicking the artists name would bring you to the artist, but it brings you the album, then there is no way to get to all music by that artist. Its not great. Searching seems to be a random chance it will show you "Apple music" and offer a subscription, even though I've turned that off in the preferences..

My time is short, I only have one mac left to load music onto the cloud service.

Re: I don't want streaming music, I just want to stream my music

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Post by wldcordeiro »

It's funny Youtube Music was mentioned because Google Play Music was actually great for listening to your music and having a curated library of stuff you uploaded along with the music on the service. When they killed that in favor of Youtube Music I noticed the "library" experience there is seemingly intentionally hobbled. The artist page is sorted by the "artist" field not "album artist" and then on top of that instead of using a nicer page[0] they use a playlist view of all their songs. Additionally the library view is intentionally split with a "uploads" and "library" tab unlike in Google Play Music where it would provide a nice shared experience with the nicer artist pages as well.

[0] https://music.youtube.com/channel/UCdrA9E1ir8pDttg7vTqrSxQ

[1] https://i.imgur.com/DTken2N.png

Re: I don't want streaming music, I just want to stream my music

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Post by evo_9 »

I have a synolgy nas and they have DS Audio that lets me stream my nearly 200 gigs of music anywhere in the world. I’ve had this for the past decade so when streaming music became a thing, yeah why would I bother. It’s pretty great butni wish they’d update the DS Audio app; it lacks a proper eq for one and the Ux could use a refresh (esp lack of dark mode, the white background at night is pretty annoying).

Re: I don't want streaming music, I just want to stream my music

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Post by wanderingmind »

christoph wrote: post #48
endigma wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Jellyfin is an emby fork, not Plex.

Jellyfin is excellent. Swapped to it from Plex about a year ago. Haven't looked back once. I run the server on an old M1 Mac Mini, it's the first time I've felt I have my own personal Netflix. I can stream 40gb 4k HDR Atmos rips to old stereo 1080p plasmas with ancient Firesticks (on wifi) in bedrooms in my house with almost zero delay, even when fast forwarding, and getting near realtime frame previews as you skip.…

have you been able to work out how to stream when you are not in LAN, like with tailscale or other overlay network?

Re: I don't want streaming music, I just want to stream my music

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Post by martyvis »

I love streaming music ( I subscribe to YouTube Premium). I get to listen to music I couldn't afford to when I was young (except when visiting friends or borrowing cassettes from the public library). I also am very eclectic - while prog rock was my first love, I am enjoying jazz, my wife loved classical and our kids all excelled in that, and have also learned about world music. Having access to libraries of music that really can't be plumbed for only $18 Aussie a month for my family as well is great

Re: I don't want streaming music, I just want to stream my music

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Post by midwesternerer »

wldcordeiro wrote: post #105

It's funny Youtube Music was mentioned because Google Play Music was actually great for listening to your music and having a curated library of stuff you uploaded along with the music on the service. When they killed that in favor of Youtube Music I noticed the "library" experience there is seemingly intentionally hobbled. The artist page is sorted by the "artist" field not "album artist" and then on top of that inst…

YouTube music is awful. I hate how everything is organized. Is it even possible to search your library? I haven't figured out the actual point of adding anything to your library because searching takes you to all available options every time. And it is never sorted the way you want. For example, if you search an artist, you get their top three albums, but then you have to click into it and search for the one album you want to listen to. I'd rather the top three albums be the ones I have in my library, not their most popular current albums. I don't listen to as wide of variety of music as I did in college and I think a lot of that is yt music makes search so difficult that I can't get to any stuff in have not listened to recently.

I remember thinking how disappointed I was when I moved from Microsoft's Zune to play music. Now I'd be happy just to get play music back

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