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As somebody paying for Spotify, I agree. As somebody who had a MP3 collection on his disk in the 2000s, I disagree. Without doubt, my wifi connection should mak
by ktpsns 7y ago
As somebody paying for Spotify, I agree. As somebody who had a MP3 collection on his disk in the 2000s, I disagree. Without doubt, my wifi connection should make it easy and fast to synchronize music between my laptop and smartphone. Nevertheless, "moving to the cloud" favours a centralized setup. Thankfully we see more decentralization on the horizon.
- TeMPOraL 7y agoWith music (and videos, and games) there's also another angle that I believe is in big part responsible for the success of Spotify and similar services: they provide an alternative between the only two options people had before - either spend a lot of money buying music in unwieldy formats, or acquire MP3s from copyright infringers.
- pavel_lishin 7y agoI totally agree with you, there should be a self-hosted option. I'd love it if the Google Play API was sufficiently reverse-engineered to just install a modified version of their software to point to my own server. I've asked for open-source/self-hosted solutions before, and a few people here responded. One of the solutions looks like it promises to do what I want, though I haven't had a solid chance to look at it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19555899 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19555899