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How to get easy music streaming (lemmy.world)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/techsupport@lemmy.world
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Hi,

So, after doing all kinds of research I figured qobuz is the least evil streaming service and the only one I'd be willing to use.

However, after trying it, I realised that they don't allow VPNs. Often it doesn't recognize the IPs as a VPN, but for some servers it does.

So, since I could get locked out at any time, this isn't a long-term solution for me.

I'm thinking of self-hosting. But then there's no recommendations. And if I hear anything I like, I need to find the stuff as well, which is gonna be tricky the more obscure it is. I can't afford to buy more than maybe two albums a month. And often it's just individual songs I want.

Do I need to drop the luxury of recommendation radio and easy access to nearly every song I like?

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Does anybody know why they block VPNs? Is there some fraud or abuse going on which includes VPNs? I feel they could at least allow it for paid accounts?! I mean unless there's people who proxy it and re-sell one family account to 36 people... Or the AI companies harvest their catalog...

But all the services are so strict, these days. I can't even watch (free) Youtube videos from a server because they blocked the datacenter IP address range.

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