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Comment on how much backing up would you do of a media server?

crony@lemmy.cronyakatsuki.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

The streaming services wont work if you have no access to interner lol.

At my last job I had to travel to my work dailly for over an hour in one way, for almost the whole travel I didn’t have any network or phone reception.

Will much rather just have music on a media server and a client that allows me to locally download some of my favouritr music for such situations like navidrome and synfonium.

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MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Streaming services let you just mark playlists for offline use, I have my whole spotify library offline.

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- crony@lemmy.cronyakatsuki.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Most streaming services have that under a paywall, which in that case I will much rather just make my own if I have a system to do it.
  
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  - lud@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    What music streaming service is even usable without paying?
    
    Spotify is the only one that I know of that has a free plan and it’s (supposed to be) terrible
    
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    crony@lemmy.cronyakatsuki.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    What I’m saying is that if I already have hardware to make one my self, why pay for it?
    
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evranch@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
We’re talking about replacing lost content here though. And as such you can use the streaming services as a “backup” by re-ripping your whole collection if you lose it.

I’m actually doing this now as part of a library cleanup. Zotify + beets are a great combo to pull down vast quantities of music and properly sort and tag it.

Then I stream it to my phone in my truck using ampache and ultrasonic, which does have a local buffering option.

However if you have some exotics that you ripped from rare discs, demos or prerelease, live recordings with sentimental value etc. I would suggest keeping those properly backed up. I don’t have many of these, but the ones I do have are backed up both cloud and offsite.

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- crony@lemmy.cronyakatsuki.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Do people really have so much music that it’s get’s hard to just keep it backed up?
  
  I personally never went over 1gb in size of my music library,
  
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  - evranch@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Personally I live in a very rural location and I farm, so I can spend a lot of time on the road or in my tractor. 1gb wouldn’t get me through a day in the field, so I have a pretty big collection with a lot of variety. We don’t even have reliable FM radio here, so it’s bring your own music or listen to the diesel roar.
    
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    crony@lemmy.cronyakatsuki.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I grew up on a farm, still help out sometimes. And same our fm radio doesnt work on most ny routes.
    
    My songs were almost always just highly compressed mp3’s I would get years ago si ce back then spotify wasnt in Croatia so my only way was yt.
    
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