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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 huimang »

One of my hobbies is buying used CDs on discogs or from my local record store and ripping them with ExactAudioCopy. I use Picard (gui) and metaflac (CLI) to manually edit the tags. For each album's comment I try to put the artists involved and the album liner notes, if any.

For a web player, Navidrome is excellent. I use the play:Sub iOS app to access it on my phone and stream to my apple tv, which is connected to my audio stack. I also stream to my bose color link II bluetooth speakers.

I also subscribe to apple music via the family apple one plan. Generating a station based on a song usually leads to decent results, at least for jazz.

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

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Post by rolenthedeep »

Gualdrapo wrote: post #11

I guess storing my music in my PC hard drive and playing from it makes me look like a caveman.

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 centralized library that any device can play from means less effort required to maintain the library.

Plus I can play my music in the car from my phone and never have to hear an annoying radio ad again.

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

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Post by cdme »

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

My favorite band's presence on streaming consists of a greatest hits compilation (and I believe the same is true of their back catalogue on digital stores). I have their CDs but they've also retired so I imagine they'll never have a meaningful digital/streaming presence. Any recommendations from streaming services have a blind spot for them.

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

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Post by bsnnkv »

Chiming in as a happy Plex lifetime pass user, using it for my FLAC music library as well as other media.

I do however, still maintain a Spotify account for primarily non-English music, especially new releases, which seem incredibly difficult to find anywhere else.

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

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Post by ProAm »

This is why I had to return my iPhone and go back to Android, there was no possible way to get my music library onto my phone with a linux computer. The only way it seems to work is if you have a Mac or Windows PC and iTunes.

Not everything is available in a company's streaming catalog, even if you pay for it.

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

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Post by agersant »

For the simplest use cases, I can plug Polaris[1] which I have been maintaining for many years.

Pros:

  - Very reliable
  - Very performant
  - Works well with large collections
  - Trivial setup
  - FOSS
Cons:

  - Small featureset
  - Infrequent updates
  - No official iOS client (there is a third party client however)
[1]: https://github.com/agersant/polaris
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