Comment on The World Is Basically Begging for Another iPod

jlow@slrpnk.net ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• caurvo@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  While you’re not wrong, and at the moment I am the same, there is also something very appealing to me about decoupling music from my phone.

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  • adespoton@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Really? There’s something appealing to me about decoupling my cellular modem from my phone; I used an iPod Touch instead of a smartphone for years (with Wifi and VoIP).

    At this point I have zero interest in a dedicated audio player.

    And if I wanted one… my watch holds more MP3s than the original iPod did. I can just play music from my watch.

    Or my graphing calculator.

    Or, for that matter, my over the ear headphones which have a microSD slot.

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    • caurvo@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yeah, that’s totally fair. I prefer wired listening devices and want less “smart” things in my life. At the moment my music library is about 180GB so a bit much for the smaller available offline devices, and mostly FLAC so the DAC needs to be powerful enough. Absolutely a me problem, as I mentioned in another comment my hobby rabbit hole into audio makes the full decouple very appealing to me.

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  • dmention7@midwest.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    If you’re moderately tech-inclined, its not super difficult to set up a streaming music server that you can access from anywhere. The most basic solution that almost anyone can spin up is a cheap NAS (or always-on PC), and setting up a VPN between your phone and router to access your library.

    From there you can add complexity by configuring a true music server like Navidrome, adding web-facing access, erc

    After typing this, I realized maybe you meant completely decoupling music from your phone, not just decoupling the storage

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    • djdarren@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Navidrome serving up my 200gb library from home, via Tailscale, and all it cost me was the music that I bought* over the years. Oh, and a fiver for Symfonium on my phone. But Feishin is free on my computers.

      Then I worked out how to redirect it through the VPS I use for my website, and now I have my own streaming service. It’s pretty sweet.

      _ *well, some of it…

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    • caurvo@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yeah I have dabbled with hosted music, but I do mean “offline” device + storage. Like MP3 players of old. I have also been blursed with an interest in audio gear so it becomes a very appealing rabbit hole for me.

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