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On the contrary, it's really quite easy to run a NAS and do all your music locally, and it's very easy to make it "as slick" as a cloud system. Millions of peop
by Bud 6y ago
On the contrary, it's really quite easy to run a NAS and do all your music locally, and it's very easy to make it "as slick" as a cloud system. Millions of people are doing this already with products like Plex.
- avianlyric 6y agoI’m not saying that running a NAS is hard. I’m saying that most of Sonos customers don’t run a NAS, they use something like Spotify. The number of Sonos customers that are really interested is a local only setup in the music streaming age is vanishingly small. I run a NAS, Plex, and even had a local music collection. But I’ve ditched it for Spotify. I simply can’t be bothered to deal with the faff. When I want music, I want it to work first time every time, not a 1% chance that something brakes that require 30mins of my time to fix.
- nobody9999 6y ago>Millions of people are doing this already with products like Plex. That's fair up to a point. Plex doesn't require network access, but if you want to use it, even with just local media, you still need to register an account with them, and usage data for local media is sent to them. Which is why I don't use Plex. Any device/app that requires you register/give access to usage information in order to utilize local resources is an intrusion of my privacy. Please note the word requires above before replying to my comment.