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by blacktriangle 1777 days ago
Even Apple Music has gone to shit. iTunes keeps managing to get worse and worse, and they're pushing hard to pretend you don't have your own collection to get you to buy into the subscription model.

At this point I'm going back to owning a seaparate dedicated music device that is totally divorced from the computer. There's just something intentional about walking over to a CD player or record player, picking out an album, and putting it on compared to mindlessly browing Spotify playlists.
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Cwizard 1777 days ago
I recently started looking into buying my music again since 90% of my Apple Music listen time goes to the same generic piano playlist. I figure I could have bought the playlist 10 times over by now... My question is where do you buy music these days? I would like it digitally but I would like to own it (no DRM stuff). Any suggestions on a good store to buy music online? Last time I bought music I did it on itunes...
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ryantgtg 1777 days ago
Bandcamp! No DRM, and also unlimited streaming of your purchases.

If most of your music is on major labels, then bandcamp may not be great for you.

I love it. I think I have around 300 purchases. It’s also great for discovering music. Much better than spotify in that regard.

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altantiprocrast 1777 days ago
https://www.navidrome.org/ might help

(I'm unaffiliated, just sharing)

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ryantgtg 1777 days ago
No sure if the parent (grandparent?) would find this helpful: but here’s the setup I use that provides a cool amount of options.

I use a Yamaha receiver (R-N803) that has their MusicCast software on it. And I use these various inputs:

- CD

- Phono

- USB. A little teensy usb loaded with music I’ve collected for the last 25 years - however, I’ve cleaned it up so it’s not filled with random things that makes my wife go “what is all this stuff! I just want to see MY music!”

- I have a Navidrome server running on a pi, with a hardrive connected to it. It basically contains the USB + all the other random stuff. This is played via the bluetooth input and Play:Sub app on my phone.

- Likewise I play the bandcamp app via Bluetooth through the receiver, and spotify as well (I mostly use spotify for listening to the back catalogs of established artists).

- Net Radio. Access thousands of radio stations, worldwide, that stream their service. It’s pretty cool!

There’s more. But, point is the setup is cool and diverse and it’s pretty easy to use.

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