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It's Not Just You: Music Streaming Is Broken Now (www.youtube.com)
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Welcome to the era of only Spotify Plays matter - let's take a look at the underbelly of streaming scams affecting independent artists.

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[–] 30 points 1 year ago* (10 children)

Nah bro, device storage is cheap nowadays. CD readers/burners to USB are also cheap. Just buy music and put it on your device of choice.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Why would you not stream that to yourself? No need to buy additional hardware to get in the way.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I mean most phones have +64gb of memory, no? With that space I can have hundreds of songs that I can listen at any time without having internet connection or not. Why would I stream it to my self (which requires internet connection) if I can just have it in my phone or computer?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    You do have it on your computer: your server.

    So when I listen to music locally, I just open clementine and it knows all the music on my server, and plays from the network share.

    When I go out, I stream to my phone from the same server. How often is your phone NOT on the internet? I mean its a phone right?

    Here I am about 5,000 miles away from my server, and I still stream to myself, to the laptop I am working on. Should I load up my phone, laptop, tablet, and steamdeck prior to leaving the house, or just know I can stream anything from my 6TB collection (seems big, but I only do FLACS) at any time?

    If you DO feel you need to have some offline, it still makes sense to have a server. Just use syncthing or any decent music program to bring over what you want before you leave the internet.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Well it sounds cool. Definetly trying it out once I have my own server (with everything that is involved).

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Hey some good people are here on Lemmy under selfhosted. I am sure there are more.

    A server can be nearly anything, a $50 used computer can work, the cost of hard drives can run a bit more. Its a neat little hobby and doesnt have to be expensive. OpenMediaVault (as the OS) is free and get you started as a NAS out of the box.

    In any case, lots of people are happy to help and there are tutorial videos as well.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Because there is no need to send music over the internet when you can just save it locally and have it everywhere and always with you.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    To be clear: I am talking about running my own sever/stream.

    I almost always have it with me because the internet is nearly everywhere. On a plane, in my car, at work, at the place I am typing this to you which is thousands of miles away from my server. When I am at home it still is playing from my NAS on my local network.

    How am I supposed to cart around 5 TB of music with me? I don't want to have to copy a tiny bit to my laptop, tablet, phone, and steamdeck. If I absolutely know I am going to be out of internet range I can have it copied temporarily to a device with downloads, or syncthing. Even doing that at least I can be nearly anywhere in the world to do the download.

    Its not like this is hard, or expensive.

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