Why play a music CD? No ads, no privacy terrors, no algorithms

Re:Why play a music CD? No ads, no privacy terrors, no algor... by kstenerud on Friday May 17, 2019 @09:08AM (#19939181)

Actually, I'm rather shocked that there isn't an all-in-one solution like what I've cobbled together. It's not like there's any super secret magic involved; you'd just need a nice user interface on top of it all.

There are even music streaming servers that you can deploy on a VPS (or locally) pretty easily. Pop in a little rsync script to move your converted lossy files to the streamer and you're set. It's just that nobody's built something that integrates everything yet, thus my Frankenstein setup.

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Re:Why play a music CD? No ads, no privacy terrors, no algor... by lostmsu on Friday May 17, 2019 @10:45AM (#19940055)

You'll be surprised, but AFAIK Windows Media Player can do all of that.

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Re:Why play a music CD? No ads, no privacy terrors, no algor... by scurvy on Friday May 17, 2019 @10:24AM (#19939869)

Media Monkey does all of the things you mentioned, and with a GUI. Rip, store, convert, transfer.

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Re:Why play a music CD? No ads, no privacy terrors, no algor... by izzydata on Friday May 17, 2019 @09:50AM (#19939561)

I'm pretty sure there are Synology applications that also do what Plex does and with a nice phone app.

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Re:Why play a music CD? No ads, no privacy terrors, no algor... by _bxg1 on Friday May 17, 2019 @09:13AM (#19939234)

Have you heard of Plex?

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Re:Why play a music CD? No ads, no privacy terrors, no algor... by kstenerud on Friday May 17, 2019 @09:20AM (#19939297)

Plex doesn't convert files for storage on a portable device, nor does it replaygain. It also has a terrible music selector interface and doesn't firewall punch.

Streaming is only part of the issue. I'm talking about the whole lifecycle, from backed up lossless to lossy-on-device in whatever format, or to a streaming service that integrates with your player devices, all from a single source of truth that you control 100% with no silly DRM or ads or restrictions.

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Re:Why play a music CD? No ads, no privacy terrors, no algor... by fuzz4lyfe on Friday May 17, 2019 @09:30AM (#19939390)

>Plex doesn't convert files for storage on a portable device

Yes it does, you can pick what quality you want when you sync[0]

> doesn't firewall punch

It does so via a reverse proxy if required[1]

[0]https://support.plex.tv/articles/201053678-sync-media-to-a-d...

[1]https://support.plex.tv/articles/216766168-accessing-a-serve...

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Re:Why play a music CD? No ads, no privacy terrors, no algor... by _bxg1 on Friday May 17, 2019 @10:03AM (#19939684)

I know it does encoding/decoding for video at least; I don't know how its music features compare.

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Re:Why play a music CD? No ads, no privacy terrors, no algor... by JohnFen on Friday May 17, 2019 @01:46PM (#19941878)

> Plex doesn't convert files for storage on a portable device

I don't know about Plex, but Kodi does this.

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