Welcome to the era of only Spotify Plays matter - let’s take a look at the underbelly of streaming scams affecting independent artists.

  • NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip
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    17 hours 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, and plays from the network share.

    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 (seems big, but I only do FLACS) 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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      15 hours ago

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

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        15 hours 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.