I rediscovered the joy of my own music collection by quitting Spotify and switching to self-hosted Navidrome.

  • RheumatoidArthritis@mander.xyz
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    11 hours ago

    I started with Navidrome, then looked at the disk space occupied by my library and it occured to me that 1TB MicroSD cards are a thing now, and I can listen to all my library offline.

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      2 hours ago

      A few years ago, I set up a home-server with music and some pictures on there, and recently I noticed that my storage disk was getting full. Then I saw that the disk only had 16 GB and wondered, where the hell I got that small of a disk from.

      So, I go to plug in a bigger disk and can’t even find the original disk at first. Turns out my whole storage capacity was one of these bad boys:

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      A tiny USB-A stick, designed for keeping it plugged into a laptop at all times.

      And yeah, I’ve got about 1800 songs, clocking in at 5.8 GB, so even that tiny storage would easily be enough for a much larger collection.
      And I do also have them replicated on my phone, for listening on the go. (Don’t even need an SD card in my case.)

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        36 minutes ago

        Haha, server grade hardware. Impressive, actually, that it survived so many years. I have a similar one in my car and it’s 10+ years old and works okay, but another one that’s permanently sticked in my server with an emergency boot image died when it was needed the most.