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I guess storing my music in my PC hard drive and playing from it makes me look like a caveman.

techsupporter 4y ago
I like this method as well but boxing up my computer and carrying it around with me is a little unwieldy. Plus, the headphone cable is really short and if I move my head too quickly it gets yanked out of the back.
- m463 4y ago
  > is a little unwieldy https://duckduckgo.com/?q=boombox+on+shoulder&iar=images&iax=images&ia=images https://duckduckgo.com/?q=boombox+on+shoulder&iar=images&iax...
blondin 4y ago
not at all. same here.
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squarefoot 4y ago
Same here, from the home NAS, through both NFS and SMB shares.
rolenthedeep 4y ago
It's certainly an option, but it lacks the flexibility most people have come to expect. Storing your media locally is fine, but you only have it when you're physically at your machine. To go portable you have to manage syncing files to an external device. Now you've got two libraries to manage. Yes, we lived with this kind of thing since digital music existed, but it was a pain then and it's a pain now. Keeping one centralized library that any device can play from means less effort required to maintain the library. Plus I can play my music in the car from my phone and never have to hear an annoying radio ad again.
- chongli 4y ago
  I sync all my music to my phone. It's really not a big deal. But I'm not the type of person who is constantly discovering and adding new music, so I don't sync very often. It's far bigger of a pain for me to deal with streaming. I don't have an unlimited data plan so streaming on the go is right out.
- Dalewyn 4y ago
  >To go portable you have to manage syncing files to an external device. Now you've got two libraries to manage. Just copying whatever music I want to listen to on the go and playing it back locally is far simpler and easier than dealing with Plex/Jellyfin, hosting a server, managing a VPN, and all the other sysadmin nonsense.
  - bobsmooth 4y ago
    Installing Jellyfin is dead simple.
- TylerE 4y ago
  This is even assuming physical media exists to rip in the first place. Plenty of smaller labels these days only do vinyl and streaming. CD is a dead format.
  - Brendinooo 4y ago
    It’s no more dead than vinyl was 15 years ago. Not everyone makes CDs these days but plenty do.
    - TylerE 4y ago
      15 years ago vinyl was already trending sharply up. CDs are way down and continuing to go down. Vinyl has outsold CD's in dollar terms for years now, and for the last several has sold more in raw units as well.
      - 4y ago
chongli 4y ago
I'm happy to join you! Now I just need my own mancave to go with it!
Dalewyn 4y ago
That's technically still streaming, it's just the latency is next to negligible because the source is local.
- CyberDildonics 4y ago
  No one who says streaming music means loading a file locally, I think you're hallucinating your own definition.
  - Dalewyn 4y ago
    Streaming is nothing more than opening a file and processing the resultant stream(!) of data. Whether you grab your MP3 off of local storage (eg: HDD), off of LAN storage (eg: NAS), or off of WAN storage (eg: Youtube), you're streaming.
    - CyberDildonics 4y ago
      When anyone talks about streaming music or video they are talking about downloading it as they're watching it. You are hallucinating a definition that no one uses. Try to understand the context if you can.
pjmlp 4y ago
Fellow caveman over here, you're doing just fine.
thefz 4y ago
Nope! Lots of people still want to "own" music.

I like this method as well but boxing up my computer and carrying it around with me is a little unwieldy. Plus, the headphone cable is really short and if I move my head too quickly it gets yanked out of the back.

m463 4y ago
> is a little unwieldy https://duckduckgo.com/?q=boombox+on+shoulder&iar=images&iax=images&ia=images https://duckduckgo.com/?q=boombox+on+shoulder&iar=images&iax...

blondin 4y ago

not at all. same here.

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squarefoot 4y ago

Same here, from the home NAS, through both NFS and SMB shares.

rolenthedeep 4y ago

It's certainly an option, but it lacks the flexibility most people have come to expect. Storing your media locally is fine, but you only have it when you're physically at your machine. To go portable you have to manage syncing files to an external device. Now you've got two libraries to manage. Yes, we lived with this kind of thing since digital music existed, but it was a pain then and it's a pain now. Keeping one centralized library that any device can play from means less effort required to maintain the library. Plus I can play my music in the car from my phone and never have to hear an annoying radio ad again.

chongli 4y ago
I sync all my music to my phone. It's really not a big deal. But I'm not the type of person who is constantly discovering and adding new music, so I don't sync very often. It's far bigger of a pain for me to deal with streaming. I don't have an unlimited data plan so streaming on the go is right out.
Dalewyn 4y ago
>To go portable you have to manage syncing files to an external device. Now you've got two libraries to manage. Just copying whatever music I want to listen to on the go and playing it back locally is far simpler and easier than dealing with Plex/Jellyfin, hosting a server, managing a VPN, and all the other sysadmin nonsense.
- bobsmooth 4y ago
  Installing Jellyfin is dead simple.
TylerE 4y ago
This is even assuming physical media exists to rip in the first place. Plenty of smaller labels these days only do vinyl and streaming. CD is a dead format.
- Brendinooo 4y ago
  It’s no more dead than vinyl was 15 years ago. Not everyone makes CDs these days but plenty do.
  - TylerE 4y ago
    15 years ago vinyl was already trending sharply up. CDs are way down and continuing to go down. Vinyl has outsold CD's in dollar terms for years now, and for the last several has sold more in raw units as well.
    - 4y ago

chongli 4y ago

I'm happy to join you! Now I just need my own mancave to go with it!

Dalewyn 4y ago

That's technically still streaming, it's just the latency is next to negligible because the source is local.

CyberDildonics 4y ago
No one who says streaming music means loading a file locally, I think you're hallucinating your own definition.
- Dalewyn 4y ago
  Streaming is nothing more than opening a file and processing the resultant stream(!) of data. Whether you grab your MP3 off of local storage (eg: HDD), off of LAN storage (eg: NAS), or off of WAN storage (eg: Youtube), you're streaming.
  - CyberDildonics 4y ago
    When anyone talks about streaming music or video they are talking about downloading it as they're watching it. You are hallucinating a definition that no one uses. Try to understand the context if you can.

pjmlp 4y ago

Fellow caveman over here, you're doing just fine.

thefz 4y ago

Nope! Lots of people still want to "own" music.