[rolenthedeep]

It's certainly an option, but it lacks the flexibility most people have come to expect.

Storing your media locally is fine, but you only have it when you're physically at your machine. To go portable you have to manage syncing files to an external device. Now you've got two libraries to manage.

Yes, we lived with this kind of thing since digital music existed, but it was a pain then and it's a pain now. Keeping one centralized library that any device can play from means less effort required to maintain the library.

Plus I can play my music in the car from my phone and never have to hear an annoying radio ad again.

[Dalewyn]

>To go portable you have to manage syncing files to an external device. Now you've got two libraries to manage.

Just copying whatever music I want to listen to on the go and playing it back locally is far simpler and easier than dealing with Plex/Jellyfin, hosting a server, managing a VPN, and all the other sysadmin nonsense.

[bobsmooth]

Installing Jellyfin is dead simple.

[chongli]

I sync all my music to my phone. It's really not a big deal. But I'm not the type of person who is constantly discovering and adding new music, so I don't sync very often.

It's far bigger of a pain for me to deal with streaming. I don't have an unlimited data plan so streaming on the go is right out.

[TylerE]

This is even assuming physical media exists to rip in the first place. Plenty of smaller labels these days only do vinyl and streaming. CD is a dead format.

[pjmlp]

Everyone that I care to listen to still produces CDs.

Many indie labels that I enjoy discovering about, sell CDs after their concerts.

It is quite alive.

[Brendinooo]

It’s no more dead than vinyl was 15 years ago. Not everyone makes CDs these days but plenty do.

[TylerE]

15 years ago vinyl was already trending sharply up. CDs are way down and continuing to go down.

Vinyl has outsold CD's in dollar terms for years now, and for the last several has sold more in raw units as well.

[Brendinooo]

https://www.statista.com/chart/7699/lp-sales-in-the-united-s...

I was off by a year or two. Point still stands.

https://www.statista.com/chart/12950/cd-sales-in-the-us/

CD sales have declined, yes, but the perception is a bit skewed because CD sales dwarfed vinyl even in its best years.

[pfffft]

CDs are the current punkest physical format. They are cheaper to produce than cassettes even. You can listen to them in your car. CDs are not dead to serious music collectors, and are in some ways superior to vinyl (not in the dynamic range department, however).

[TylerE]

Not cheaper for very short runs. I know friends who will put out cassettes with as few as 10 copies. CD production doesn't get cheaper until you're talking larger quantities (like 100+).