How do you listen to your music library on the go
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As an iPhone user, that now uses Linux (Fedora) exclusively on desktop, I find myself in need of a way to organize my music outside of iTunes.
I have a ton of music purchased on CD that has been ripped into iTunes. This worked jsut fine when my desktop was Mac of Windows based as I could run iTunes there and organize my library and choose what music to put on my devices.
But as I can no longer run iTunes, I need a way to stream my music.
I have been looking at Amazon Music and Google Music as choices, but I hate how Google jsut abandons services, and Amazon just announced they are discontinuing their upload service.
Amazon was also $25 per month just to upload. I can get a massive VPS on Vultr for that if I want.
I have a Plex server at home, but I have not decided if I am into it enough to buy their Plex Pass ($120 lifetime)
Emby works similar and has a similar lifetime purchase plan.
Both Plex and Emby are free if you use the web portal, but you have to have their subscription to use the apps.
What else do people do for their music collections?
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I dropped my iTunes library onto my Plex server back when I set it up. I have just over 6000 items there.
Although a quarter of that is my dark decade of listening to Country and Christian Rock. I got over it, thankfully.
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So I have been using Google Music since 2008 and it has evolved. Before you had the uploader app on Windows and then uploaded to the cloud. Now it is through Google Chrome as an extension and then the music is uploaded. I can stream my music on Iphone and Android no problem with the Google Music application.
I also have NextCloud with the AudioPlayer to listen to music online:
https://apps.nextcloud.com/apps/audioplayer
https://apps.nextcloud.com/apps/musicMy last option is to use Spotify with Local Files as it syncs the files on your desktop through Playlists.
https://support.spotify.com/us/using_spotify/features/listen-to-local-files/ -
For those curious about plex on your devices.
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And here you can see, Emby has the same setup.
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I keep mine in OneDrive and sync it to my micro SD card in my phone. I also sync all of my OneDrive to an external USB drive on my home laptop.
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@jaredbusch said in How do you listen to your music library on the go:
I dropped my iTunes library onto my Plex server back when I set it up. I have just over 6000 items there.
Although a quarter of that is my dark decade of listening to Country and Christian Rock. I got over it, thankfully.
Please tell me you also wore Cowboy hats
Note: I'm also using Plex
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Literally just a giant NFS share that's backed up to CrashPlan.
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@stacksofplates said in How do you listen to your music library on the go:
Literally just a giant NFS share that's backed up to CrashPlan.
Right, but how do you listen to it on the go?
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@jaredbusch said in How do you listen to your music library on the go:
@stacksofplates said in How do you listen to your music library on the go:
Literally just a giant NFS share that's backed up to CrashPlan.
Right, but how do you listen to it on the go?
Can't you sync up your library to your phone, and use the built-in media player? That works for me.
I only sync the music I will actually listen to. A lot of songs will fit on 64GB microSD. They are cheap, and your phone may possibly take a larger one.
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@tim_g said in How do you listen to your music library on the go:
@jaredbusch said in How do you listen to your music library on the go:
@stacksofplates said in How do you listen to your music library on the go:
Literally just a giant NFS share that's backed up to CrashPlan.
Right, but how do you listen to it on the go?
Can't you sync up your library to your phone, and use the built-in media player? That works for me.
I only sync the music I will actually listen to. A lot of songs will fit on 64GB microSD. They are cheap, and your phone may possibly take a larger one.
He’s using an iPhone.
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@black3dynamite said in How do you listen to your music library on the go:
@tim_g said in How do you listen to your music library on the go:
@jaredbusch said in How do you listen to your music library on the go:
@stacksofplates said in How do you listen to your music library on the go:
Literally just a giant NFS share that's backed up to CrashPlan.
Right, but how do you listen to it on the go?
Can't you sync up your library to your phone, and use the built-in media player? That works for me.
I only sync the music I will actually listen to. A lot of songs will fit on 64GB microSD. They are cheap, and your phone may possibly take a larger one.
He’s using an iPhone.
Oh, bummer. Good luck!
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Apparently OneDrive does music. I haven’t used it so I can’t say how good it is.
As you’re already aware, Microsoft also love to toast existing services at will.
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We have google music family (which gives you tube red for family) but previously had thousands and thousands of iTunes purchases.
Anymore it’s rare I find a song that isn’t on play, and I sync my playlists offline in iOS. If I Shazam something on the road (rare these days) I add to playlist and let it download immediately.
So basically I now use music.google.com for everything.
Have used plesk and did a lot of ripping in the 2000’s for music and video, but with the kids I finally switched to google.
I have to admit I never thought I would find myself doing this and like everything else these days we are hopelessly at the mercy of our cloud overlords.
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@bigbear said in How do you listen to your music library on the go:
We have google music family (which gives you tube red for family) but previously had thousands and thousands of iTunes purchases.
Anymore it’s rare I find a song that isn’t on play, and I sync my playlists offline in iOS. If I Shazam something on the road (rare these days) I add to playlist and let it download immediately.
So basically I now use music.google.com for everything.
Have used plesk and did a lot of ripping in the 2000’s for music and video, but with the kids I finally switched to google.
I have to admit I never thought I would find myself doing this and like everything else these days we are hopelessly at the mercy of our cloud overlords.
I use Prime Music mostly to play random playlists and the odd specific song I want to hear.
But that does not help me with all the Japanese music I have in my library.
That is why I was looking at the upload services.
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@jaredbusch said in How do you listen to your music library on the go:
@bigbear said in How do you listen to your music library on the go:
We have google music family (which gives you tube red for family) but previously had thousands and thousands of iTunes purchases.
Anymore it’s rare I find a song that isn’t on play, and I sync my playlists offline in iOS. If I Shazam something on the road (rare these days) I add to playlist and let it download immediately.
So basically I now use music.google.com for everything.
Have used plesk and did a lot of ripping in the 2000’s for music and video, but with the kids I finally switched to google.
I have to admit I never thought I would find myself doing this and like everything else these days we are hopelessly at the mercy of our cloud overlords.
I use Prime Music mostly to play random playlists and the odd specific song I want to hear.
But that does not help me with all the Japanese music I have in my library.
That is why I was looking at the upload services.
Is it no longer a feature of Google Music to add a drive folder to show up in Music. They had something like this, which would make your point of Google dropping features.
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I havent used Plex since 2009 or 2010, it has come a long way by the looks of it. But it does suck you have to subscribe to the mobile apps.
Is it a $4.99 activation plus a monthly service?
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@bigbear said in How do you listen to your music library on the go:
I havent used Plex since 2009 or 2010, it has come a long way by the looks of it. But it does suck you have to subscribe to the mobile apps.
Is it a $4.99 activation plus a monthly service?
To use the mobile app it is a subscription or a one time in app purchase.
I will likely do the lifetime subscription thing and also buy some hardware to setup Plex to record my OTA TV service also.
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@jaredbusch said in How do you listen to your music library on the go:
@bigbear said in How do you listen to your music library on the go:
I havent used Plex since 2009 or 2010, it has come a long way by the looks of it. But it does suck you have to subscribe to the mobile apps.
Is it a $4.99 activation plus a monthly service?
To use the mobile app it is a subscription or a one time in app purchase.
I will likely do the lifetime subscription thing and also buy some hardware to setup Plex to record my OTA TV service also.
What can you do with this in terms of purchasing new music. I am not entirely up on this since I have been using a subscription for so long. And Youtube Red has spoiled me with just removing the ads.
I am guessing iTunes doesnt have DRM on music anymore. Would you purchase and dowload/upload into Plex?
Plex is actually looking pretty nice...
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@bigbear said in How do you listen to your music library on the go:
What can you do with this in terms of purchasing new music. I am not entirely up on this since I have been using a subscription for so long. And Youtube Red has spoiled me with just removing the ads.
Yeah, getting new music means uploading it to you Plex system from whatever system you bought it.
As I mentioned above, I generally listen to Prime Music channels for American music, current and older.
But once I have a solution for this again, I am sure I will listen to my own playlists of music again also.
