📑 How To Enjoy Your Own Digital Music

Bookmarked How To Enjoy Your Own Digital Music by Wouter GroeneveldWouter Groeneveld (brainbaking.com)

Mike Harley recently wrote about making collecting an MP3 library popular again. It seems to be a hot topic in the circles I sometimes find myself in, and I’ve read a couple of interesting thoughts following Mike’s post on Mastodon.
As for myself, I slowly but surely came to the same conclusion …

Wouter Groeneveld reflects on the move away from Spotify and owning your music once again. He touches on such options as Navidrome and Music Player Daemon. I think the biggest challenge is convenience.

I have read about people setting up their own personal music servers. I imagine I could probably do this with Reclaim Cloud. The other alternative is to go complete old school and scrap streaming altogether and just load purchases to my devices as I used to do. To be honest, it just isn’t a priority for me right now. I guess I have become far too wedded to the cloud, even with all the hidden costs.

3 responses on “📑 How To Enjoy Your Own Digital Music”

  1. Ernie Smith discusses the challenges associated with hosting your own cloud. He provides a summary of his findings.

    So, armed with the knowledge that Syncthing is awesome but didn’t cover every one of my bases, I went with a hybrid approach. Rather than attempting to embrace one solution for everything, I decided a mix of solutions was the way to go, each optimized for specific needs.

    NextCloud for standard document editing and office-style applications, which can be useful in cases when I’m not near my machine or I want to make a quick edit to a file on mobile. This sync runs on just one machine, my Xeon—the same Xeon that hosts the server on Docker—and only stores essentials like text files and images at this juncture. (Essentially, I took away NextCloud’s need to sync most of my files.)
    Syncthing for file sync across a variety of machines. This runs on every machine I rely on, including iOS and Android.
    Backblaze B2 for long-term cloud file storage, which I manually handle once a week through the command-line tool Rclone. (Info here; I could easily automate this.)

    @readtedium https://tedium.co/2022/02/16/self-hosting-dropbox-alternatives/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=feedpress.me&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+tedium

    This is an interesting piece in regards to discussions of quitting platforms such as Google and Spotify.

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