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1. pkthunder · 1790939090 · focus · HN ↗

   I’ve been going through my own personal revival of physical media - mostly audio. I don’t miss streaming at all.

   Every CD I buy gets ripped to a NAS that hosts the music behind Navidrone where I can stream to my vehicle using Play:Sub (thanks to Tailscale for enabling all of this to work for me!).

   I am just so enamored with being able to get the best of both worlds - my own music, anywhere.

   I do wish I could figure out some sort of recommendation system to find new magic, though. Obviously not to steam new/unowned songs, just to point me in a direction next time I go to the store.

   1. this_user · 1790943331 · focus · HN ↗

      And how many CDs can you buy per month for the price of a Spotify subscription? I am not going to be spending hundreds of Euros per month on physical media, and I also value my time too much to bother with ripping and converting these, just so I can end up with a worse experience for more money, while also producing a bunch of unnecessary plastic rubbish.

      1. 10729287 · 1790943812 · focus · HN ↗

         This may be the main difference between consuming content and listening to music. For some people, more is not always better and the process of building a collection and putting time and energy into it is a big part of the experience.

         1. pkthunder · 1790944180 · focus · HN ↗

            Yep - I’ve noticed I’ve stopped “having music playing” and I’ve more started “listening to the music” if that makes sense.

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