I ditched Spotify and set up my own music stack

I had my music stack way before Spotify because this was the only way (and completely illegal at that time)

One thing I _really_ want to point out is:

>One-time server setup + storage

This is a fairy tale. No, you will have to support this stack, things will break as they always do and hardware is not free either.

And this works more or less well for techy people. (only a small portion of them).

Spotify because a thing because most people do not want to do all that. Or store hundreds of CDs.

> you will have to support this stack, things will break as they always do and hardware is not free either.

Hardware is hardly the first thing that will break when you consider the number of pieces in that architecture, including a bunch that aren't self hosted.