I guess storing my music in my PC hard drive and playing from it makes me look like a caveman.
Fellow caveman over here, you're doing just fine.
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
#242Oh 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 totally do too. And we're not alone. I not only ripped all my old CDs to FLAC (which I use both as archive/backup and source) but I still buy CDs. Nobody want CDs anymore, so I just buy them used. And then I rip them. And then the CDs go into a box in the garage/shed. My car doesn't take FLAC files but it's got its own storage…
Plus there’s still tons of older albums not on streaming services. I’m big on older theme park soundtracks and many of them never made it to digital officially. In fact I just paid over 130 bucks for a cd.
Re: I don't want streaming music, I just want to stream my music
#243Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's certainly an option, but it lacks the flexibility most people have come to expect. Storing your media locally is fine, but you only have it when you're physically at your machine. To go portable you have to manage syncing files to an external device. Now you've got two libraries to manage. Yes, we lived with this kind of thing since digital music existed, but it was a pain then and it's a pain now. Keeping one c…
This is even assuming physical media exists to rip in the first place. Plenty of smaller labels these days only do vinyl and streaming. CD is a dead format.
Everyone that I care to listen to still produces CDs.
Many indie labels that I enjoy discovering about, sell CDs after their concerts.
It is quite alive.
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#244Earlier 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…
> 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.
I could be wrong about this, but aren’t individual performances of these works still protected? If I record an album of works by Debussy that performance isn’t in the public domain and couldn’t be used as sample tracks.
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#245Earlier quoted context omitted.
That is a great idea. I definitely need a demo page.
oh i see you do have a 14 day demo ... it wasn't clear to me. that's a design issue. You need to push the lede up. "Free 2 week demo. No credit card needed. [Try it now]" "Register" is too committal ... try things like "get started" or "try it out" - more action, result and experience oriented. Lastly on the technicals, look into https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/MediaSessio... this will allow you to n…
> "Free 2 week demo. No credit card needed. [Try it now]"
> "Register" is too committal ...
I actually didn't notice the "No credit card needed" until I had written a long explanation :-)
That is how hard the "Free demo" has been abused to snag my credit card, so maybe experiment with some variations as long as it doesn't delay launch :-D (FWIW: personally, with my background and as a non-native speaker, "register" doesn't sound as scary as "Free 2 weeks demo".)
Re: I don't want streaming music, I just want to stream my music
#246Have no idea of formats, but been on a track to nothing with crappy systems. And concluded that it's just easier to roll your own.
Transfer all your flacs to opus, with playlists, upload and just use http. Build a web front end using GPT in 10 minutes.
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#247My setup is Kodi on the LAN + wireguard. I can now stream my 0.5 TiB media collection where ever in the world I am.
Re: I don't want streaming music, I just want to stream my music
#248Earlier quoted context omitted.
oh i see you do have a 14 day demo ... it wasn't clear to me. that's a design issue. You need to push the lede up. "Free 2 week demo. No credit card needed. [Try it now]" "Register" is too committal ... try things like "get started" or "try it out" - more action, result and experience oriented. Lastly on the technicals, look into https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/MediaSessio... this will allow you to n…
> "Free 2 week demo. No credit card needed. [Try it now]" > "Register" is too committal ... I actually didn't notice the "No credit card needed" until I had written a long explanation :-) That is how hard the "Free demo" has been abused to snag my credit card, so maybe experiment with some variations as long as it doesn't delay launch :-D (FWIW: personally, with my background and as a non-native speaker, "register" d…
You gotta pair it with "no card needed" otherwise it sounds suss.
There's other ways. "Upgrade to a paid account if you like it" works. "Upgrade" implies work. "Paid" implies the work is paying. Thus the thing you're currently engaging with doesn't need payment.
You can also call it "Free tier" which has "14 day expiration" as a stipulation.
There's no best practice here because it's dependent on the product, value proposition, where you are in the funnel and who the customer is. They'll perform differently and counterintuitively and most frustratingly, change over time (because the context of the relationship between your prospect and product is always dynamic)
The truths that do hold are,
1. Make it sound casual
2. Avoid hustle language
3. Give an easy exit strategy
4. Make it clear and direct
Re: I don't want streaming music, I just want to stream my music
#249Earlier quoted context omitted.
OP has a somewhat complicated setup. Here's an easier one that I use: * Pay $15/month for a VPS (whatbox in my case). * whatbox has a notion of first class apps, including Plex. Click a button in their GUI to install it. * drag and drop your music using whatbox's GUI file browser That's it.
The negative reactions to you saying $15 are a good example of why there are no good Spotify and Netflix alternatives for people wanting to stream their own media. People claim to want it, but they put a very low monetary value on it. No new business can survive on $3 a month subscriptions.
At that price the transaction fees are large.
~35 - 36 USD a year? Depends on what's going on and the volume. Probably no support or paid per incident support.
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#250I use Jellyfin, it's about the same thing as Plex, but free. I host it on my homelab along with a half dozen other services, and I can stream any of my media from anywhere. There's even pretty nice third-party clients. I use finamp on android, it's specifically a music player frontend for jellyfin, and has options to download your files and play offline. So far, the biggest problem is simply learning how to find musi…
Will check finanmp, jellyfin is nice that it offers http. The web app is buggy. Kind of 90 percent there. Then I read they are doing a rewrite.
I subscribe to the odd free service. Fallback to my cd/ripped collection that is large. But I am totally bored with it.
Moved to radio mixes via SoundCloud and mixcloud and advert free stations. Which is pretty satisfying but for bookmarking, that requires interruption.