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What is ownership in the digital age?The big media companies want to redefine what it means to purchase content. They want everything to be a rental, even if...

Yeah, this is the thing that’s making me want to go back to having a private music library again. I pay for this shit, and they keep removing songs from my play lists.

@pezhore@infosec.pub
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I started back up again with Lidarr + Plexamp, with the noted exception that I’ve actually tried to buy music from Bandcamp.

  1. Not everything I want is available on the high seas
  2. I’m at a place financially where I can drop $40 on something like Lagwagon’s back catalog.

Honestly? It’s way better than Spotify - the Plexamp DJs work really well, I can offline download albums for runs/work (where I’m in the basement and have zero cell coverage).

@You999@sh.itjust.works
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If you are looking for an open source alternative to plexamp I recommend checking out Logitech Media Server. Don’t let the Logitech in the name fool you.

I’ve done the same. You can get some obscure stuff from soulseek if Lidarr isn’t finding all the stuff you want. I’m mostly using that and just using Lidarr for organizing and tracking.

You’re 100% right about the plexamp DJs. They’re super good. Love the deepcuts one.

@Rodeo@lemmy.ca
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You were foolish to have ever given it up in the first place.

You know hardware doesn’t last forever right? Like, I couldn’t just have kept my ipod for 20 years bcz it wouldn’t even be functional.

@pedz@lemmy.ca
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If you own your music, you can have it in a digital format and copy it somewhere else.

I’m an old millennial that started with dial-up and downloaded MP3s from IRC/Napster/Kazaa/torrents.

Eventually I started to buy what I could on CD then ripped them, then bought MP3s when possible. Otherwise I don’t mind using yt-dlp.

Those MP3s have been played by a portable CD player, then a Samsung MP3 player, then 3 or 4 phones. I’m still playing that collection on my actual phone, using Poweramp.

The device that plays the files may not last but you can certainly copy those elsewhere and do what you want with them, for as long as you want.

I’ve got 3 iPods. The nano I got way back in like 2006, and two gen4s I bought 5yrs ago. They’ve all been modded with new batteries and ssds, but they all work just fine.

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Sure they do. I’ve got a Sansa Clip that I bought back in 2008 for $50 that’s still going strong, especially now that I’ve loaded Rockbox on it and it can play formats other than MP3. iPods especially are famous for basically living forever, especially if you flash-mod them (replace the hard drive with something solid state, like an SD card), possibly also replacing the battery if it’s stopped holding a charge.

DIY repair work isn’t for everyone, but it doesn’t get much easier than fixing an old iPod (the older the better).

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I am thinking of doing the same thing. I will setup Navidrome to stream it.

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