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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 mfringel »

navjack27 wrote: post #328

What's so hard about copying the music that you know you're going to be wanting to listen to to whatever device that you're going to have with you and then just listening to it? Why does it have to be streamed? If you have everything on an NAS then just use Windows file share and go to that folder and drag it to your foobar 2000 on your computer. If you're out and about and you want access to all of this then set up…

Quite possibly because they don't want to do any of the things you listed in your first paragraph.

UPDATE: Also, sir, this is an Arby's.

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

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Post by navjack27 »

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…

I've taken to doing a similar thing except on my phone and anywhere with limited storage I use different things instead of MP3 because that is an ancient technology. I have the lossless copy on my big storage. And on my phone I have xHE-AAC copies of pretty much my entire library. I figure since everything I listen to on my phone goes through compression anyway even through the highest quality ldac that my nice headset has and especially because the vehicles I drive in have crappy Bluetooth audio that using this way more efficient codec is a pretty good trade-off.

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

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Post by navjack27 »

mfringel wrote: post #331
navjack27 wrote: post #328

What's so hard about copying the music that you know you're going to be wanting to listen to to whatever device that you're going to have with you and then just listening to it? Why does it have to be streamed? If you have everything on an NAS then just use Windows file share and go to that folder and drag it to your foobar 2000 on your computer. If you're out and about and you want access to all of this then set up…

Quite possibly because they don't want to do any of the things you listed in your first paragraph. UPDATE: Also, sir, this is an Arby's.

Oh hey I'll take uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh / / / / / / / large curly fries

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

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Post by spinadisk »

dghughes wrote: post #313
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…

>I threw out my CDs a long time ago I have a pile of CDs and my plan was to do that. Now I wonder if some are any good or if the metal coating has degraded. Some are nearly 40 years old!

I have one from the late 80s, or very early nineties that degraded. Certainly worth having a look.

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

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Post by spinadisk »

pjmlp wrote: post #238
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…

Nope, maybe it shows my age, but I still buy CDs and them ripp them, or buy MP3s. Then I have my set of playlists that I either sync to the phone, or set of SD/USB cards to plug into the car. I am not keen in losing my audio collection to some subscription service. Movies is another matter, it is most throw away content anyway besides some jewels, and for those, DVD/Blue-Ray. Just in case, someone makes the comparisa…

I wonder if there is any advantage to a digital recording converted to say high quality aac, flac or whatever over ripping from a cd. Lots of my cds have very poor production on them.

And on that note, how many recordings have been revisited? Can they improve them from re-masters, have they been, are they, or is that all a con to get you to buy them again?

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

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Post by MikusR »

MVorlm wrote: post #19
nouryqt wrote: post #6

I use navidrome[0], its a music streaming server you can selfhost and then use a player that supports the subsonic api for playback. I use the strawberry[1] music player on my desktop and substreamer[2] on android. Navidrome can also scrobble your music to last.fm if you tell it to. The actual music files are mounted with rclone and --vfs-cache-mode full to a directory. [0] https://www.navidrome.org/ [1] https://gith…

As someone currently running a Navidrome instance with 40k songs...yeah, I wouldn't wish that on anyone(horrible performance), but it is an option I suppose.

I run navidrome on raspberry pi 4 with 160000 songs and no slowdowns in web or symfonium

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

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Post by hasbot »

I was in this camp too until January. I have nearly 20k of fairly well tagged and curated mp3s. They consume 85Gb and easily fits on an SD card.

While I'm mostly content with my collection, there are many gaps particularly from bands that only have one or two songs that I like. I did the 90-day Spotify trial in January and set up my ultimate favorite song list (minus Neil Young) of about 1900 songs. Maybe I'll try to add the missing songs to my library but at $10 a month it might not be worth the time.

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