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That's why you run your own "cloud" music service. Personally I use Subsonic, and it is amazing. http://www.subsonic.org/pages/index.jsp
From the site: Based on Java technology Ugh.. lost me. I don't run Java anything anymore.
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It's ONE DOLLAR per month. ONE DOLLAR! And it's only if you want the extra features. Would you rather have ads be inserted between your songs or something? The development of the app needs to be paid for one way or the other.
One dollar is too much for something that was a solved problem (media sync).
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> Music is a great use-case for keeping data in the cloud Since when? For start it drains battery much faster. Oh and you know, it does not work offline!
Plenty of cloud/online music services allow you to cache music offline to avoid those problems.
Until network will be more reliable and faster than my hdd, there is not much to discus.
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>Music is a great use-case for keeping data in the cloud. Yes, but ideally, when it's your cloud. Just because all these major cloud players can just stop their service on their whim.
>all these major cloud player can just stop their service on their whim If you are concerned with minimizing monetary loss rather than preserving working copies of your media [1] you can treat that as an argument for choosing a media provider that allows you to pay a monthly fee. If (when) their service gets discontinued you switch to another one; the only problem you would face is migrating your favorites, bookmark,…
I don't think this is a good strategy, you are putting yourself at the mercy of content license negotiations that are done by a bunch of idiots with their heads up their asses that you have absolutely no control over. There is no guarantee that the music you "rent" from one service will be available for you to "rent" on another service.
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That's why you run your own "cloud" music service. Personally I use Subsonic, and it is amazing. http://www.subsonic.org/pages/index.jsp
From the site: Based on Java technology Ugh.. lost me. I don't run Java anything anymore.
Java may not be amazing, but it's hardly "so bad I literally won't ever use it."
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Did you ever try Foobar 2k - its arguably a better replacement for Winamp on windows
Agree about Foobar. It's about the only app from Windows that I miss when using OS X. Anyone have a Mac player they use with similar philosophy/featureset to Foobar?
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That's why you run your own "cloud" music service. Personally I use Subsonic, and it is amazing. http://www.subsonic.org/pages/index.jsp
From the site: Based on Java technology Ugh.. lost me. I don't run Java anything anymore.
As a JavaEE architect/developer, I whole-heartedly agree that you shouldn't run Applets in your browser anymore. In fact, unsigned applets will no longer run after January of 2014, which will break a lot of the banking infrastructure and a couple important client applications at my day job.
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It worked for playing MP3s, but once you had a collection of a certain size it didn't do a very good job of managing that collection, at least at the time I stopped using it. You'd double-click an MP3 or a playlist and it would completely forget about everything that was in there before. I got so sick of that.
You can change that with a setting in the preferences.