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Spotify boycott: Artists leave ‘garbage hole’ platform after CEO invests in AI weapons
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The ethical alternative is listening to mp3s straight from your own hard-drive, just like we did in the '50s.
Dude, I remember my grandpa telling me about ripping CDs back then. The computers they used were the size of entire rooms and could only rip at .5x
Fuck yeah, down with streaming I wanna own my shit again
then do that. If you don't have enough space, get an external hard drive. If you want convenience, you can attach the hard drive to a raspberry pi and access the music from anywhere. You'll probably never get as convenient as spotify, but hey, you gotta decide what your values are and if that means being a streaming-vegan then that's the sacrifice you gotta make.
I feel like there is a step missing here. Do you mean physically take the raspberry pi and HD with you (I mean, you could but it's not terribly elegant) or are you talking about just setting it up to stream the music.
If your referring to streaming, is there a program you can recommend to easily stream it outside of you home network? I.e. access anywhere.
Leave it at your home network.
The simplest solution IMO is to access it via an SSH or SFTP connection. I have these connections bookmarked in my file browser, so I can open them up just like any folder on my hard drive.
Some people use jellyfin as a client which has a kind of netflix-like interface. I haven't researched to find out if there's anything with a more spotify-like interface.
I've used jellyfin for years but never tried to remotely access it. From what I've read you pretty much have to use something like Tailscale. It's something I will probably give a shot at some point.
I have never used SSH or SFTP. I will have to look into that. I automatically assumed that to access my files remotely I would need to pay for a static IP address. I'm assuming this is not the case? I'll have to read up on it.
Thanks for the info. Time for me to dust off the raspberry pi 4 and play around with it a bit.