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

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Post by pfffft »

TylerE wrote: post #168
Brendinooo wrote: post #100

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s no more dead than vinyl was 15 years ago. Not everyone makes CDs these days but plenty do.

15 years ago vinyl was already trending sharply up. CDs are way down and continuing to go down. Vinyl has outsold CD's in dollar terms for years now, and for the last several has sold more in raw units as well.

CDs are the current punkest physical format. They are cheaper to produce than cassettes even. You can listen to them in your car. CDs are not dead to serious music collectors, and are in some ways superior to vinyl (not in the dynamic range department, however).

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Post by Hasu »

yesco wrote: post #21
ThrowawayTestr wrote: post #9

Emby can stream without a subscription. But why does the author hate algorithms so much? Spotify has great recommendations.

>Spotify has great recommendations. For some people Spotify absolutely does not have good recommendations, at least that has been my experience

I'm not sure about other people, but I hate Spotify's recommendations, and I think it's because my unit of music discovery is albums, not tracks. The Daily Discovery playlist is just randomly selected tracks, and I can't even listen to that. It's too scattered and doesn't go deep enough.

The old Discover tab/page was amazing for finding new albums, but they killed it for some reason.

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Post by futurecat »

I am streaming my music in two ways.

For digital music, I have a setup with Beets and Plexamp. Plexamp is a seriously good player.

For my vinyl records, sometimes I record a selection of tunes just like a radio DJ would. I have a liquidsoap instance coupled with an icecast server serving all these mixes in a random fashion.

This way, I have both my radio station I can connect on (and share as well) and a streaming option with the choice of what I want to listen to. I love it.

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Post by locusofself »

I find it somewhat amusing that people have a problem with music streaming services as a consumer. Listening to any song you want is basically free, or for $10/mo you can listen in high quality and curate and download your playlists.

As a musician or rights holder the streaming services are pretty bad in terms of getting paid. But as a consumer we are spoiled to death with ease of music access.

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

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Post by kristopolous »

grose wrote: post #170
kvirani wrote: post #164

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This is awesome. Why do you think you never found success with it?

Thanks! Good question, I think it's probably mostly a mental block on being "done". There was always "one more feature" I wanted to add before trying to market it. The feature I can most think of right now is playlists. They are supported in Subsonic but not the web UI. Currently I have exactly 2 customers, who are pretty much friends helping me test. The good news is the site is optimized for being set-it-and-forget…

I can't experience this easily.

Have a really small demo tier or a demo account, say with public domain classical and jazz standards, just something basic.

The demo tier could be phone number based, then a write once system, let's say 100mb ... something really token.

You could even have a few sample tunes everyone gets by default. Rhapsody in Blue by George Gershwin is in public domain for instance as are say, the rags of Scott Joplin, Debussy's Deux Arabesques, etc.

If that doesn't onboard people then have a no-hassles 7 day refund. If someone gives you money but then decides they don't want it, have it built in the interface they can back out for 100% money back in 7 days.

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Post by softjobs »

ibroadcast wrote: post #171

Hi Cory, We feel your pain! We are in the same position as you and this is exactly why we exist! We scrobble to Last.fm, have native apps for iOS and Android, a web based player for the computer, and tons of device support in one form or another – Chromecast, Alexa, Roku, Apple TV, Android TV, and more! Our core, free service gives you unlimited access to all your music, device support, and no limitations on uploadin…

Excellent service!

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Post by grose »

kristopolous wrote: post #185
grose wrote: post #170

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks! Good question, I think it's probably mostly a mental block on being "done". There was always "one more feature" I wanted to add before trying to market it. The feature I can most think of right now is playlists. They are supported in Subsonic but not the web UI. Currently I have exactly 2 customers, who are pretty much friends helping me test. The good news is the site is optimized for being set-it-and-forget…

I can't experience this easily. Have a really small demo tier or a demo account, say with public domain classical and jazz standards, just something basic. The demo tier could be phone number based, then a write once system, let's say 100mb ... something really token. You could even have a few sample tunes everyone gets by default. Rhapsody in Blue by George Gershwin is in public domain for instance as are say, the r…

That is a great idea. I definitely need a demo page.

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Post by conceptme »

locusofself wrote: post #184

I find it somewhat amusing that people have a problem with music streaming services as a consumer . Listening to any song you want is basically free, or for $10/mo you can listen in high quality and curate and download your playlists. As a musician or rights holder the streaming services are pretty bad in terms of getting paid. But as a consumer we are spoiled to death with ease of music access.

This is mostly true for pop songs any niche genre, especially a bit older is usually lacking on streaming services.

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Post by TylerE »

pfffft wrote: post #181
TylerE wrote: post #168

Earlier quoted context omitted.

15 years ago vinyl was already trending sharply up. CDs are way down and continuing to go down. Vinyl has outsold CD's in dollar terms for years now, and for the last several has sold more in raw units as well.

CDs are the current punkest physical format. They are cheaper to produce than cassettes even. You can listen to them in your car. CDs are not dead to serious music collectors, and are in some ways superior to vinyl (not in the dynamic range department, however).

Not cheaper for very short runs. I know friends who will put out cassettes with as few as 10 copies. CD production doesn't get cheaper until you're talking larger quantities (like 100+).
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