Indeed. My collection is on my phone’s memory, my old phone “music player”, and just a back up SD card in my laptop.
Comment on What do you use for music library streaming?
Nico_198X@europe.pub 8 hours ago
SD Card on my phone. i don’t stream it anymore. storage is so cheap now i can easily hold all of my flac files, no problem.
MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
unphazed@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
The only reason I still have a s20fe. The last of the sd card phones… sigh
slamphear@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
I’m currently waiting for my Fairphone 6 to arrive, but I believe the sim tray includes a spot for an SD card. I was also recently using a Furi Labs FLX1, which also had an SD card slot. There are other options out there. 😊
Nico_198X@europe.pub 3 hours ago
ppl will find a way. i’m on a Mudita Kompakt. XD
wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 2 hours ago
I use a DAP with an SD card on the go, because my whole collection is lossless and I like fidelity. However, it’s convenient to be able to stream music to my TV while doing house chores, and allow family access.
Nico_198X@europe.pub 2 hours ago
the family bit is key i think for needing a home server. some TVs you can do via BT to the phone.
but if you’re setting it up anyway for your family, then yeah, best to organize around the server.
good luck to you!
HiTekRedNek@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
I have over 3 TB of music. SD cards aren’t quite that big yet.
Nico_198X@europe.pub 6 hours ago
sure, then in your case, if you absolutely must have access to it all at one time, then home streaming makes sense.
for me, and i do imagine most ppl (tho i could be wrong!), it doesn’t make sense compared to just returning to local.
genius that i am, i only realized that AFTER i setup a jellyfin server on my home server for streaming my music. XD derp.
HiTekRedNek@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
I use navidrome. And what’s nice about it is, there are 3 people in my household, they can all access that. We all have our own favorite tracks saved in our preferred player, and we can still save a good chunk of them to our phones.
In my case, I have a random mood playlist of 200 tracks that gets updated every morning before I wake up, my phone app caches all 200 of them, so I can play them without network access.
SidewaysHighways@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
how does this work for you? i was on gonic but moved back to navidrome to allow for mopidy to let home assistant trigger playlists directly (with the mpd integration)
but i haven’t figured out the smart playlists yet
Nico_198X@europe.pub 5 hours ago
that’s a great use case!
SidewaysHighways@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
whts yr slsk info? lol
HiTekRedNek@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
You’ll know it when you find it. 🤣
SidewaysHighways@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
muahaha… daw
my library is already though to sift through.
20,000 mainly flacs and it’s still less than 500gb
remon@ani.social 3 hours ago
So you only listen to music on once device?
If not, do you swap the SD card between devices all the time or do you have a separate SD card for all devices? How do you keep them in sync, transfer playlists, etc?
Yeah, go local as in: Run your own media server and stream from that.
But actually keeping music files on the device only is step in the wrong direction.
Nico_198X@europe.pub 3 hours ago
i listen on two devices: my phone and my PC.
i transfer playlist files with the audio files.
depends on ppl’s use cases. a home media server is over-engineered solution for me, and perhaps others. but it’s good to stop for second and consider what one’s needs actually are.
remon@ani.social 3 hours ago
Right, but considering that OP is already running a media server and also is looking for a way to curated his library, I don’t see how switching to on-device storage would be anything but a downgrade.
Nico_198X@europe.pub 3 hours ago
up to OP. i read it as “i wanted to go all in on Jellyfin, but it’s been a PITA. what else would you suggest?”