Why would you not stream that to yourself? No need to buy hardware to get in the way.
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mariusafa@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
Nah bro, device storage is cheap nowadays.
NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
mariusafa@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
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?
NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
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.
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 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.
mariusafa@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
Well it sounds cool. Definetly trying it out once I have my own server (with everything that is involved).
Honytawk@feddit.nl 2 months ago
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.
NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 2 months 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.
interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Optical drives are no longer in production
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BafMgVvHTIkieron115@startrek.website 2 months ago
Shit. I’m glad I’ve been babying my asus bw-16d1ht with libredrive mode enabled. You know, for backing up my home movies.
WolfLink@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
You can also just buy digital downloads from sites like Bandcamp and Quobuz, and even iTunes if you click past the Apple Music streaming part.