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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 ph
by rolenthedeep 3y ago
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.
- chongli 3y agoI 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.
- Dalewyn 3y ago>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 3y agoInstalling Jellyfin is dead simple.
- TylerE 3y agoThis 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.
- Brendinooo 3y agoIt’s no more dead than vinyl was 15 years ago. Not everyone makes CDs these days but plenty do.
- TylerE 3y ago15 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.
- pfffft 3y agoCDs 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 3y agoNot 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+).
- Brendinooo 3y agohttps://www.statista.com/chart/7699/lp-sales-in-the-united-states/ 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/ 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.
- pjmlp 3y agoEveryone 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.