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| I'm a big music enjoyer. What I'm not a big enjoyer of is streaming services. Maybe I'll write another article about that, but the short of it is that instead of paying a company to rent temporary access to their music library, | I'm a big music enjoyer. What I'm not a big enjoyer of is streaming services. Maybe I'll write another article about that, but the short of it is that instead of paying a company to rent temporary access to their music library, | ||
| - | - artist makes music | + | - you find some new music |
| - | - you pay the artist for a copy | + | - you listen to it a few times to see if you like it |
| + | - if you like it, you pay the artist for a copy | ||
| - you own that copy | - you own that copy | ||
| - | That way the artist gets money and you own something in return for your money. | + | That way the artist gets money for making art and you pay once to own a copy of it instead of renting temporary access. |
| - | One of the benefits of owning music is that you can put it on whatever device you want and use whatever program you prefer to play it. However, if you have multiple devices getting your music collection available on all of them becomes an exercise in file management. This article roughly depicts how I solve it. | + | Streaming is good for the first two steps. Finding new music is hard, and you have to listen to it a few times at different times, since it might only hit in a certain mood. Starting from music you already like and letting the recommender algorithm drive discovery is a good way to find new music. After that though, I prefer to pay the artist for their work instead of paying rent, and prefer to download the data once rather than download it every time I want to listen to music. Bandwidth is a limited resource! |
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| + | One of the benefits of owning music is that you can put it on whatever device you want and use whatever program you prefer to play it. However, if you have multiple devices | ||
| ===== Methods ===== | ===== Methods ===== | ||
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| The upshot is that to solve this problem you need a music playback app that also has its own syncing service built in. Obviously this is [[https:// | The upshot is that to solve this problem you need a music playback app that also has its own syncing service built in. Obviously this is [[https:// | ||
| - | I can already hear you saying, "why don't you [[just]] play back your music over the network using a network player"? | + | I can already hear you saying, "why don't you [[just]] play back your music over the network using a network player"? |
| Anyway, as luck would have it, the [[https:// | Anyway, as luck would have it, the [[https:// | ||
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