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I ditched Spotify and set up my own music stack

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275 points starkparker | 1 comments | 04 Sep 25 22:47 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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rpgbr ◴[05 Sep 25 01:28 UTC] No.45134159[source]▶
Wow, that’s a lot. Just install any offline music player on your phone and transfer songs to it…?
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theshrike79 ◴[05 Sep 25 06:50 UTC] No.45135667[source]▶
My current music collection is 399GB (mostly lossless Flacs).

I'm not buying a phone with 512GB-1TB of storage just for my music, 5G is available everywhere and my home internet connection is plenty fast. I can just stream it from home - maybe sync some locally if I'm going off grid.

And moving files manually one by one to my phone? Oof. It's not the early 2000s, we have better solutions.

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ragazzina ◴[05 Sep 25 09:04 UTC] No.45136508[source]▶
>I'm not buying a phone with 512GB-1TB of storage just for my music,

If a 512GB phone costs you $300 dollar more tahn the one you would have bought, it amounts to $2 per month for a 5-year phone. Spotify is three times that.

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1. theshrike79 ◴[05 Sep 25 10:00 UTC] No.45136836[source]▶
$300 will also get me a used mini PC[0] with 2TB of storage[1] I can set up at home in an evening with Navidrome+Audiobookshelf and not have to buy a phone with massive storage at all! :D

And as a bonus everyone in my family can listen to the same collection without having to upgrade to a 1TB phone. And I can use the same source in my car, on my laptop, desktop etc. All without having to waste 400GB of space for music storage on every device.

[0] https://www.ebay.de/itm/156667490633

[1] https://www.ebay.de/itm/296887285188