Comment on It's Not Just You: Music Streaming Is Broken Now

• mariusafa@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?

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  • NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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    • mariusafa@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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      • NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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• Honytawk@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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  • NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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