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[–] thisisawayoflife 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

This is my take as well. Storage is cheap. I have thousands of albums and about 40,000 tracks currently and it consumes about 400GB. It's really not that much storage, considering.

[–] GeneralVincent 1 points 1 year ago

40... 40,000...? My god I thought I had a lot of music downloaded, but I haven't even broken into the thousands yet

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (4 children)

So you don't listen to music unless you're at home? Or do you choose a subset of your library to put on your phone? That would be terribly annoying for me.

[–] apochryphal_triptych 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In my case, a self hosted streaming server works wonders. Plex with Pleaxamp, Jellyfin, Navidrome, Airsonic, any of them will stream to your phone while out and about.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That will work great if you live your entire life in cities.

I spend a lot of time in places with no cell service.

[–] apochryphal_triptych 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I live in the rural midwest with spotty cell service. All of those services support manual offline syncing to store music on your phone. I set Plexamp to stream lossy over cellular, and it doesn't take long to cache an entire playlist when I do have a signal.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So then you're back to the problem where you require more storage than what your phone has.

[–] apochryphal_triptych 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What problem? 200 tracks times 4mb/track equals 1Gb. If you can't spare a couple gigs of storage, you need to delete some apps off your phone.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The guy said he has 400gb of music, that's what we were talking about

[–] apochryphal_triptych 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And I said offline syncing a playlist (1-2Gb), not 400Gb. Max 1-2Gb. I have 1.8Tb of music that I can stream in the rural midwest at any given moment providing I have a signal, and about 3Gb synced to my phone when I don't have a signal. Plex is smart enough to buffer the next few song in your playback queue so it will play seamlessly through bad cellular coverage. Spotify and Tidal work the same way. Is selecting a subset of Spotify's catalog annoying?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've never used those streaming services and that's literally one of the reasons why. You're back to the same problem.

[–] apochryphal_triptych 2 points 1 year ago

I don’t know what to tell you then. 🤷‍♂️

[–] clearleaf 3 points 1 year ago

It's easy bro just maintain a server with redundant disks and a reverse proxy so you can stream music over your unlimited cellular data connection that I'm totally sure you have access to in your region.

[–] thisisawayoflife 3 points 1 year ago

Yes, I listen to music and podcasts everywhere. I use airsonic-advanced, currently.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Plex or other local system streaming service, you know, using the tech that's existed for over a decade now?

No need to store jack shit on my device unless I know I'm going to a low reception area m