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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 siquick »

sen wrote: post #119
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…

> 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! You’re definitely not alone. I’ve been collecting MP3s since they first began, choosing 1-2 songs a night to leave downloading over dialup. I still have ever MP3 I ever downloaded short of deleting the f…

Have you ever bought any of that music you prize?

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Post by CivBase »

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…

I used GPM for that exact reason. When Google announced they were killing it for YTM, I setup an Emby server and never looked back. YTM is an abismal service.

Supposedly Jellyfin is pretty good now, but that wasn't an option at the time and I've been comfortable with Emby.

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Post by indigodaddy »

martyvis wrote: post #109

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 tha…

Also have YT Premium and wind up just using YT Music to listen to music. It’s not the best UI, but I can find most anything I’m looking for on it. It’s a little dirty but gets the job done.

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Post by Larrikin »

ggm wrote: post #10

I paid for plex, I stream my own music from anywhere via the callback into my home net. I can chromecast, play in-car, whatever. If I have IP "it just works" Its backed on an RPI-4 NAS I built, running the plex arm linux code. I have another RPI-3 in the living room as a headless music source to an amp. In the past I've used HDMI to VGA+audio splitters to scatter output to devices. This is my music, on my disks, unde…

What do you do for podcast? I feel like its the biggest (and really only) regression Plex ever did. Theres a plethora of other apps, but they all kind of suck and don't work with everything. My pain point is lack of Sonos support.

Spotify has podcasts but literally has the worst UI for keeping up with podcasts. They make it as difficult as possible to find what you've already listened to and what you're currently listening to, outside of the last few played podcasts.

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Post by bodge5000 »

ggm wrote: post #10

I paid for plex, I stream my own music from anywhere via the callback into my home net. I can chromecast, play in-car, whatever. If I have IP "it just works" Its backed on an RPI-4 NAS I built, running the plex arm linux code. I have another RPI-3 in the living room as a headless music source to an amp. In the past I've used HDMI to VGA+audio splitters to scatter output to devices. This is my music, on my disks, unde…

Does plex have anything for audiobooks (preferably streaming with the option to download locally)? I quit audible after they removed desktop support but I managed to get all my books out of their DRM, but right now they just sit on an external ssd and I have to manually load them onto whatever laptop I'm using (which also means they don't keep their place between devices)

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Post by jrm4 »

ThrowawayTestr wrote: post #117
jrm4 wrote: post #113

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I very much hate them. I know I'm going be the old man yelling at clouds on this one, but I genuinely believe that algorithms are garbage "curators" and no substitute for individual humans (DJs, radio show people) with taste, because algos can (and will) be gamed.

There is no human with music tastes as specific as mine besides me. But an algo can take all of my listening history and recommend whole genres I didn't even know about. I don't think Spotify's is one that can be gamed.

What in the world makes you think it can't? I can think of a TON of ways this could happen at MANY DIFFERENT LEVELS.

Is it open/transparent? Okay, then they could just be lying.

How does it weigh things? There's no such thing as "objective" here.

Okay, from the outside, what's stopping me from "ddosing" fake streams from vps' or similar?

It strikes me as utterly naive to presume "fairness" here.

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Post by cridenour »

bodge5000 wrote: post #126
ggm wrote: post #10

I paid for plex, I stream my own music from anywhere via the callback into my home net. I can chromecast, play in-car, whatever. If I have IP "it just works" Its backed on an RPI-4 NAS I built, running the plex arm linux code. I have another RPI-3 in the living room as a headless music source to an amp. In the past I've used HDMI to VGA+audio splitters to scatter output to devices. This is my music, on my disks, unde…

Does plex have anything for audiobooks (preferably streaming with the option to download locally)? I quit audible after they removed desktop support but I managed to get all my books out of their DRM, but right now they just sit on an external ssd and I have to manually load them onto whatever laptop I'm using (which also means they don't keep their place between devices)

Prologue for iOS is a Plex audiobook player that is better than any audiobook player has a right to be.

Here's a good guide on how to set up Plex for proper metadata with audiobooks: https://github.com/seanap/Plex-Audiobook-Guide

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Post by mmcclure »

https443 wrote: post #83

I use "DS Audio", the web/native app that comes with Synology home NAS. It works pretty well. Probably not as well as Plex or Jellyfin. Has anyone used both?

I came here to say this as well. Synology's Video Station app is also decent.

Both of them are surprisingly good in a lot of ways, but also...kind of ugly. Not enough so to not use them, but I wish these two apps had the same UI polish that some of the other first-party Synology apps have.

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