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You're devaluing your own labor and perpetual storage costs for eternally maintaining your own library, and making it accessible to each device you want to list

You're devaluing your own labor and perpetual storage costs for eternally maintaining your own library, and making it accessible to each device you want to listen from. With streaming, there's just a single set of credentials to manage, and then I can access anything I want from any device I want. I don't have to store new music anywhere, or pull it down to other devices. It also ignores multiple aspects of discoverability. If I hear a song I like from an artist, I can spend zero marginal dollars to find out if I like anything else they've made. Or the algorithms can suggest new things similar to other things I like. I don't use Spotify, but only because I watch enough youtube that I view youtube music as "free" with youtube premium. But if that weren't the case, I'd still consider streaming to be a pretty good deal to avoid the perpetual hassle.

jjulius 2y ago
>You're devaluing your own labor and perpetual storage costs for eternally maintaining your own library, and making it accessible to each device you want to listen from. With streaming, there's just a single set of credentials to manage, and then I can access anything I want from any device I want. I don't have to store new music anywhere, or pull it down to other devices. The value of my labor and storage efforts are worth both the control I have over my collection and my ability to ensure that I will keep what I want for as long as I want to. >It also ignores multiple aspects of discoverability. If I hear a song I like from an artist, I can spend zero marginal dollars to find out if I like anything else they've made. I can easily do this with any number of already-existing tools, including Bandcamp.
Zambyte 2y ago
> With streaming, there's just a single set of credentials to manage The same credentials I use to buy new music: my password manager master password. > and making it accessible to each device you want to listen from. Syncthing directory; set and forget just works on all my devices. > If I hear a song I like from an artist, I can spend zero marginal dollars to find out if I like anything else they've made. Streaming services don't vanish when I primarily listen to DRM free music. Sometimes I find new music on Youtube. I usually find new music from word of mouth. I don't know, I just don't see any of these as limitations that I run into.
- delecti 2y ago
  For that first one, it should be read as "the only thing to manage is a single set of credentials", not focusing on the numbers of credentials per se. Good examples of things you don't have to manage with streaming: how to setup syncthing on any devices, any storage to hold the media, or any configuration to make the storage available over the internet. Maybe it's not that hard if you know what you're doing, I'm confident I could manage, but it's darn nice having to bother. It certainly takes far more marginal work to manage than streaming, if only because streaming requires no marginal work to manage.

jjulius 2y ago

>You're devaluing your own labor and perpetual storage costs for eternally maintaining your own library, and making it accessible to each device you want to listen from. With streaming, there's just a single set of credentials to manage, and then I can access anything I want from any device I want. I don't have to store new music anywhere, or pull it down to other devices. The value of my labor and storage efforts are worth both the control I have over my collection and my ability to ensure that I will keep what I want for as long as I want to. >It also ignores multiple aspects of discoverability. If I hear a song I like from an artist, I can spend zero marginal dollars to find out if I like anything else they've made. I can easily do this with any number of already-existing tools, including Bandcamp.

Zambyte 2y ago

> With streaming, there's just a single set of credentials to manage The same credentials I use to buy new music: my password manager master password. > and making it accessible to each device you want to listen from. Syncthing directory; set and forget just works on all my devices. > If I hear a song I like from an artist, I can spend zero marginal dollars to find out if I like anything else they've made. Streaming services don't vanish when I primarily listen to DRM free music. Sometimes I find new music on Youtube. I usually find new music from word of mouth. I don't know, I just don't see any of these as limitations that I run into.

delecti 2y ago
For that first one, it should be read as "the only thing to manage is a single set of credentials", not focusing on the numbers of credentials per se. Good examples of things you don't have to manage with streaming: how to setup syncthing on any devices, any storage to hold the media, or any configuration to make the storage available over the internet. Maybe it's not that hard if you know what you're doing, I'm confident I could manage, but it's darn nice having to bother. It certainly takes far more marginal work to manage than streaming, if only because streaming requires no marginal work to manage.