• Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
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      1 year ago

      file size absolutely matters when you have thousands of songs lol, my music is a significant chunk of my phone’s SD card capacity

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      This is my take as well. Storage is cheap. I have thousands of albums and about 40,000 tracks currently and it consumes about 400GB. It’s really not that much storage, considering.

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        40… 40,000…? My god I thought I had a lot of music downloaded, but I haven’t even broken into the thousands yet

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        So you don’t listen to music unless you’re at home? Or do you choose a subset of your library to put on your phone? That would be terribly annoying for me.

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          In my case, a self hosted streaming server works wonders. Plex with Pleaxamp, Jellyfin, Navidrome, Airsonic, any of them will stream to your phone while out and about.

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            That will work great if you live your entire life in cities.

            I spend a lot of time in places with no cell service.

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              I live in the rural midwest with spotty cell service. All of those services support manual offline syncing to store music on your phone. I set Plexamp to stream lossy over cellular, and it doesn’t take long to cache an entire playlist when I do have a signal.

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                So then you’re back to the problem where you require more storage than what your phone has.

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                  What problem? 200 tracks times 4mb/track equals 1Gb. If you can’t spare a couple gigs of storage, you need to delete some apps off your phone.

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                    The guy said he has 400gb of music, that’s what we were talking about

        • gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          Plex or other local system streaming service, you know, using the tech that’s existed for over a decade now?

          No need to store jack shit on my device unless I know I’m going to a low reception area m

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          It’s easy bro just maintain a server with redundant disks and a reverse proxy so you can stream music over your unlimited cellular data connection that I’m totally sure you have access to in your region.