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Posted by surprisetalk 7 days ago

De-Clouding: Music(rosswintle.uk)
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tamimio 3 days ago|
I did that around 1.5 years ago. I was at the thrift store and found an MP3 player "SanDisk Clip Sport Go" for $2.99, modded it to increase the memory from 32GB to 256GB, and now I have all my music there in a very small form factor that I had to put an AirTag on to find it! It also has FM radio, a screen, actual buttons, and the battery lasts a week with normal use. It doesn't have Bluetooth; however, I just attach a Bluetooth dongle "1Mii Safefly Pro" and can pretty much have high-quality audio to my speakers and headphones or even my car, and yes, I also found that dongle for $3.99 at the thrift store. Both are less than one month's subscription.
unbolted3032 3 days ago||
The beginning of a post series? Could be interesting. De-Cloud is a great term for what you’re doing.
shocks 3 days ago||
Jellyfin (server), Finamp (iOS client) and Tauon (Linux client) for me.
nunobrito 3 days ago||
I'm a fan of keeping music videos and playing them on the background but VLC has been crappy and the default video player doesn't like older formats.

Do you have any recommendations?

shocks 3 days ago||
Nope, sorry. :(
ivanjermakov 3 days ago||
My setup exactly. No setup needed for those already hosting Jellyfin.
shocks 3 days ago||
I can recommend the Finamp beta if you've not tried it already!
bob1029 3 days ago||
Spotify, et. al., are wonderful for discovery but the chances your esoteric finds will stick around are precarious.

Their entire economic model relies upon providing the least amount of money possible to the rights holders. This seems to often mean removing access to "expensive" content in customer libraries.

I don't think it's a simple coincidence that some of the best tracks wind up getting removed arbitrarily. It's almost like I can trigger this to occur by listening to anything "not mainstream" too many times.

bambax 3 days ago||
Their economic model is also based on trying to come up with new content all the time (hence podcasts), because once people realize they mostly listen to the same songs over and over again, they will resent the cost of a subscription.

This is the main difference between video and audio. One rarely watches the same movie or show more than once (it can happen, and there are people watching Succession or Friends on loop, but they're a minority). But we often listen to the same songs / artists and like the familiarity of it.

Subscription for music is not just detrimental to the artists: it's fundamentally a bad deal for users.

sneak 3 days ago|||
Nah. All of Spotify’s discovery is paid placement payola.

It’s annoying and gross and ruins the product.

doublerabbit 3 days ago||
> Spotify, et. al., are wonderful for discovery

Was. They deprecated their API which allowed you to lookup for more songs of the same type.

Probably just to piss me off. SpotifyQT + that was great.

Now I'm stuck shuffling through playlists.

sn0n 3 days ago||
I have a 512gb s22 ultra wifi only that was a handle down, the carrier radio was fried and they just sent a replacement... It's an amazing offline mp3 player loaded up with my 45k song Library. Using auxio from f-droid which handles it fine. Couldn't be happier. Also have the full library loaded onto my nextcloud (selfhosted, behind wireguard) and my laptop. I try to avoid the streaming side of things because camping and road trips happen.
zer0zzz 3 days ago||
I did this by making my own cloud. Simply run a mod server that uses icecast as its audio backend. Then just like that you can listen to streaming audio from anywhere.
p0w3n3d 3 days ago|
What server do you run? I'm planning to re-cloud my music, I mean I divide my music to two parts: that I listen to casually, and that which I want to own by myself. Spotify is so cheap it tempts really well, but I've already lost a few of my music from it (for example I had a title in my playlist, but it's lost, and I can't even see what the title was). I tend to re-buy each month a CD or two, so I re-own my music.
quectophoton 3 days ago|||
Not the person you asked, but I am running mpd[1] ("musicpd" in some package repos), using its httpd output to serve on localhost, and use a normal reverse proxy with Nginx to expose it on my VPN with HTTPS. To manage playlists and stuff, I connect to mpd from my LAN using ncmpcpp[2].

Nowadays there's probably better alternatives though.

[1]: https://www.musicpd.org/

[2]: https://github.com/ncmpcpp/ncmpcpp

MattJ100 3 days ago|||
Spotify has an option to show songs in your playlists which have been removed. In the mobile app, Settings->Content and Display->Show unplayable songs.

Hope this helps!

atoav 3 days ago||
I never went to the cloud and have a well currated and sorted file-based record collection. Where a few years back people would look at me like a weirdo for not "just" using spotify, some of them have come around to asking me how to do it my way.

I have most of my music on my phone and can listen to it with zero network connection. There have been multiple instances where I have been the only person with music..

xenodium 3 days ago||
I went through a similar exercise last year (back to purchasing/owning music) and couldn't be happier. Built my own offline player too.

https://xenodium.com/ready-player-mode

https://xenodium.com/a-tour-of-ready-player-mode

yrcyrc 3 days ago|
Been using Plexamp off a NAS at home that serves music throughout the house (Apple TVs, Plex) or in the car, or anywhere for that matter.
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