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I guess storing my music in my PC hard drive and playing from it makes me look like a caveman.
That's technically still streaming, it's just the latency is next to negligible because the source is local.
I have a synolgy nas and they have DS Audio that lets me stream my nearly 200 gigs of music anywhere in the world. I’ve had this for the past decade so when streaming music became a thing, yeah why would I bother. It’s pretty great butni wish they’d update the DS Audio app; it lacks a proper eq for one and the Ux could use a refresh (esp lack of dark mode, the white background at night is pretty annoying).
All I want the do is have DS audio play a random playlist of my music and it was garbage. Strike 1, you have to play using playlists, and even if you choose to randomly play "all your music", it caps their playlist at something like 500 songs (can't remember exactly) so it didn't do the one primary use case of "play a random song from my library". Strike 2, even in that subset of l my music, the playlist randomiser w…
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Thank you! The way I tried to solve this problem is by using signed URLs for the files. So every file URL should only be accessible to a user with the matching credentials. At least, that's the idea :-)
What if the user shares that URL with someone? Or the URL is only accessible if you are signed-in?
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What if the user shares that URL with someone? Or the URL is only accessible if you are signed-in?
Signed URLs (or pre-signed URLs) typically expire after a short time frame. The idea is that they exist for long enough for the object in question to be retrieved in the application, and they then automatically expire. Although they don't typically have a single-use limitation, this is often the intention a developer has when using a pre-signed URL.
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…
- My phone doesn't have enough space to store all my music
- I don't know what I'm going to be wanting to listen to
- I don't want to carry a second device and have to keep it charged & synced
But I also can't be bothered to set up any of that tech bro stuff, so I just upload all my pirated city pop to my youtube music library and put up with the intentionally crappy interface.
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Like a 25gb-1$ plan. Or 20$ annual.
I like this idea. I'm going to look into adding a small annual plan. BTW, currently you never lose access to your files even if you don't pay so feel free to use the site for free and wait until I get the annual plan in.
But at the very least I'm going to try it out. Looks great from the outside.
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See Capitol Records v. MP3Tunes ; the courts have got your back.
Wow this is exactly what I wanted to know! Thank you so much. I feel less worried now. This also means I can dedupe files!!
HN comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2914779>
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Is there room in your paradigm for an audiophile 1.5? Someone who buys the $2000 pre-amp but knows full-well that interconnects are snake-oil; someone who knows that spending more than $1000 per separate will not be worth the money unless you have a dedecated listening room with accoustic panelling.
Even then, $1000 is very unlikely to be a meaningful investment. The hard upper limit is the equipment the mastering engineer used to listen to the track when mastering it. Even if your equipment can reproduce more detail, that's likely unwanted detail. Something you'll frequently notice when listening to youtube shorts on a big home theater setup – a lot of wind noise below 80Hz which the author couldn’t notice, but…
If the track you are listening to was recorded in some teenager's bedroom on a crappy cassette deck, then it should sound as such. This is equally as important as being able to pick out the detail on a track that has been produced with all the latest state of the art equipment.
Music is fundamentally about communication of emotion that transcends language and the purpose of a good HiFi is to facilitate that communication.
However, when it comes to consuming things like video content, particularly that made for youtube, tiktok, etc. then it is probably unfaithful to even attempt to listen to it on a high-end system, just as you say. It's like eating MacDonald's in a michelin starred restaurant or scranning gourmee steak from a takeaway container while drunk on a street corner at three in the morning: context matters.
See also: https://hard-drive.net/hd/entertainment/100-gecs-song-blasti...
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Another Navidrome user here, hosted on a $5 Linode Nano. I have rclone set up to mount an S3 bucket with the music files. Scanning them is a bit slow, but otherwise I've had no issues. I highly recommend Symphonium as an Android client. It is receiving constant updates, highly polished, has an offline mode, Android Auto support, and so much more.
How many Gb do you have on and how much do you pay for that S3 bucket? I'm thinking of doing that but I wonder what'll be the cost. I'm not sure what to put on the AWS calculator, becasue it depends on usage and whatnot!