Re:Helm is a personal server that lives where you do
by xvector on Sunday August 29, 2021 @06:17PM
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That's one of the biggest problems with subscription services. My favorite band's album was pulled from Spotify. Wouldn't have been a concern if I had set up Lidarr on my NAS.
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Re:Helm is a personal server that lives where you do
by Causality1 on Sunday August 29, 2021 @07:13PM
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Streaming is great for music discovery but storage is cheap enough I keep all my favorite music on my phone.
Re:Helm is a personal server that lives where you do
by ale42 on Monday August 30, 2021 @07:24AM
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Same for me. I prefer buying FLACs (or actual CDs) of the music I want to have and keep it on my devices, so there's no future risk of losing it (I do have backup). Plus, streaming requires a working connection, uses more energy, etc... so as you say, it's (very) good for discovery, but has many downsides too.
And actually, I think that in many cases piracy happens because it's the easiest option, not because people wouldn't be willing to pay. But this is a bit off topic ;)