[peach]

For someone that was using GMusic as an online store of my own digitalised albums, what would be the alternative, to have something distributed that could stream across device?

[CodeyWhizzBang]

I moved all mine across to YouTube Music - they have an automatic process that copies it across in the background for you.

[peach]

Worth it? Happy with it?

[72deluxe]

Call me old fashioned, but what about a large capacity iPod or phone storage? And then just store the "master" on your laptop and sync as appropriate.

[walrus01]

This is exactly what I do. And for the precise reason that I don't trust some cloud based third party service to not become unavailable for reasons beyond my control, which is exactly what's happened here. Disk storage and backup for 400-500GB of mp3 and aac is cheap.

[72deluxe]

Glad it's not just me doing this then! My 160GB iPod classic is still going strong.

[errantspark]

It's possible to get it going even better than strong. I have an old 60GB iPod that I swapped an SD card adapter into in lieu of the hard drive and then used the extra space to put in a bigger battery. The parts are super easy to find on ebay and now I have a 256GB iPod that can play music for 50+ hours straight.

[72deluxe]

Did you follow a guide for this? It sounds like a great way to extend the life of my iPod indefinitely!

[fuzxi]

I host a Jellyfin server, personally. Jellyfin is a FOSS fork of Emby Media Server from before they went closed source.

[arbol]

You could host Plex on a raspberry pi in your house. Or you could house it on paid for servers like aws.

https://www.plex.tv/en-gb/your-media/music/

[WorldMaker]

Most NAS systems support Plex. A Synology, for one example, might be a better option than a Raspberry Pi. (ETA: If you have the money to invest in it, of course.)

[ryanlol]

Plex on AWS? ehhh

[tibbydudeza]

I would not do that ... DMCA takedowns galore !!!!!

[ryanlol]

I wouldn’t worry about that, but the million dollar bandwidth and storage bills.

It’s a bit like using Fiji water for your toilets and paying $5 per flush.

[wuunderbar]

Why would they care, or firstly how would they know if it's just for personal use?

[javagram]

ITunes / Apple Music should work.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_online_music_loc... only lists a few alternatives and a lot of defunct services like Amazon and Microsoft’s shutdown cloud player and Groove Music...