Maybe its a generational thing but I prefer having a Plex / Plexamp serveur with all my music as FLAC on my home server. I can better curate my collection and it's available everywhere.
this post was submitted on 13 Jun 2023
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Plexamp is awesome, and the UI/UX is gorgeous in my opinion!
I have Ampache running on a self hosted server, which has desktop and mobile apps.
I don't know why you were down voted but thanks for this. I'm doing some research on it now. So here take this upvote
Ampache with dsub has been my good enough solution for years.
I've got a local library that I stream with using Subsonic/Airsonic-compatible APIs.
Give ViMusic (for Android) a try. It's free in F-Droid. It's like Spotify but uses Youtube Music for the backend.
I have a Spotify account and never use it anymore. ViMusic is great.
Local copy for life. Streaming is just renting by a nicer name. I don't want to pay for the rest of my life to access the same content. I'll buy CDs and I'll buy DRM-free FLAC files if available, but otherwise I'm pirating the FLAC copy or, if worst comes to worst, ripping the audio from YouTube (too many new artists/YT artists don't offer lossless downloads). I'm not paying for something I don't get to keep.
Support your favourite artists by buying their merchandise and going to shows.
Not being an avid consumer of music, I only use Spotify.
Specifically to listen in my car or at home. I don’t use it anywhere else, so I don’t need to keep a offline library.
Local library for me for sure!
I discover new music through friends, Shazam, and browsing Youtube Music.
With ~6k songs I don't get bored that fast.
This totally depends on YOU and how you consume music. I am an analog collector who has a small collection of cassette tapes and vinyl to play at home for gatherings. But then I have spotify for the car and for showering lol.
I have a smart TV with ReVanced so I don't get commercials/ads on YouTube and can play music there too.
It's up to you where you draw the line. It's "all or something" not, "all or nothing." You could use Spotify to find great music, then turn it into your private collection lol.
Make sure to donate or otherwise support them if they are small time artists :)
There are free resources online that can give you music suggestions, you can use that to find new music and source it yourself.
Discog is one of my favorite sites. You can buy second hand physical media for millions of different artists, even some pretty obscure and underground groups. I've been growing my physical media library using them and it's been great so far. Good for collecting rare vinyls and CDs.
Its a personal choice, but I prefer owning my music rather than 'renting' one. You have the option to have whatever songs you like, Spotify lacks a lot of the remixes I personally enjoy.
The suggestions were pretty bad at least for me, YouTube had a much better algorithm for finding music back when I was still using it.
I have tens of thousands of songs in my home computer but I prefer to just use Spotify when I am outside.
Local library. I don't want to pay for things I don't own. Streaming services also can remove/ disable music any time. I also don't need recommendation algorithms I think they are biased. I can easily discover new artists on blogs
Streaming for discovery, private tracker to get it in FLAC.