Comment on Is anyone NOT steaming their Music?
lemonuri@infosec.pub 3 weeks ago
I don’t understand why you would even stream anything at all. You don’t even need a separate device nowadays to carry around a very large library of music (mps3 or even flacs).
remon@ani.social 3 weeks ago
I listen to music on multiple devices and don’t want to deal with syncing files and playlists between them.
Also my library is currently 900GB, which would take up almost all the storage on my laptop and I’d have to buy a 1TB SD card to be able to fit it on my phone.
Much easier to just stream it.
mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Yeah, the benefit to streaming is that you can have much larger libraries. I have +5000 songs on my most commonly played lists, and that’s not even my full library. My devices are already full enough with things like game files (emulators), video files (locally downloaded from my Plex/Jellyfin server so I don’t have to stream video on the shitty work WiFi), and videos/photos from daily life. If I can store my music elsewhere, of course I’m going to do so. I’ll keep one or two common playlists automatically downloaded, but the rest gets streamed.
remon@ani.social 3 weeks ago
Yup. I’ve given my plexamp app 60GB of cache space, so hundreds of recently listen songs (which is enough for my common playlists) will be on local storage.
It’s really the best of both worlds.