Metal heads vs normies : Physical media

[Ducky]

I was holding out until a while ago, but moving necessitated packing the collection away (which took considerable effort), so for the interim I went with streaming and local digital files, but now I just can't be arsed. Beep bop, a few button presses and there's nearly any album you want. Sound.

I do still very much listen to albums as complete albums though, even with the ease of skipping I still hit play at track one and let it go the whole way through.

Can't enjoy a book on a Kindle/e-reader, mind.

[londonleatherboy]

Was chipping away with cd's and vinyl over the years since my teens and never really playing them , and when i did, on basic equipment. Invested in a hifi amp with the matching cd player and a quality turntable there last year in lock down... life changing.

[astfgyl]

I had left off the CDs for a good while but got back into them strong in the last couple of years. It's just less disposable and with such a daunting amount of choice out there, it's good to be a bit limited to get the most out of it.

It does seem to be more of an underground thing, the physical purchases. I guess it's a generational thing too

[Blackout]

Absolutely love my kindle. Being a person who can only afford to rent a room I can't be doing with lugging books around.

[Doctor Crippen]

Absolutely love my kindle. Being a person who can only afford to rent a room I can't be doing with lugging books around.

Ideal solution in fairness, the missus has one and she loves it

[leoos]

I gave away almost all my CD's in 2010. I was plugging away buying records till a couple of years ago. I moved house, they haven't moved back in with me. I was using Google Play Music and Chromecasting for a couple of years but they changed to YouTube Music which is terrible. So seeing as I had pretty much everything I ever owned on mp3 and some more besides I dragged a RaspberryPi out of a box, and set up a self hosted mp3 server that I can access on the phone while out walking the dogs which is about the only time I get to listen to music nowadays

[Trev]

I dragged a RaspberryPi out of a box, and set up a self hosted mp3 server that I can access on the phone while out walking the dogs which is about the only time I get to listen to music nowadays

I still have all my cds but that sounds a decent idea for being out and about. Would it be easy enough to do for a technological idiot?

[leoos]

I still have all my cds but that sounds a decent idea for being out and about. Would it be easy enough to do for a technological idiot?

It took a lot of mucking about alright. I work on mac admin on a daily basis so I have a basis in setting up stuff in Linux.
I read this https://jordancrawford.kiwi/home-server-without-portforward/
And took it from there

I did the following. (there are many other ways to do this I'm sure)
Bought Raspberry Pi 4 and had a 2TB USB drive

Installed Ubuntu Server on the Pi
Installed Docker

Installed Ampache https://ampache.org/ (which is the media server)
Installed Samba (to fileshare with my local machine to copy mp3's to the external drive)
Installed Wireguard https://www.wireguard.com/ (to create a VPN to......)


I have rented a Virtual Machine on http://vultr.com/ (there are others) €5 a month. Up to 1TB of data can be sent through this without and additional charges
This is publicly accessible over the web
I have setup Wireguard there also.

Wireguard creates a  private VPN between the Raspberry Pi on my desk and the virtual server online
I got myself a URL €28 for 3 years I think

I got secure SSL certs for my URL
I setup a website to my URL which points to my virtual machine on the internet

This then connects to my Raspberry Pi with Ampache installed over the VPN and serves music to an app called dSub on my phone

It took a lot of messing, a lot of Googling and I am still figuring it out as I go along

[jobrok1]

[ochoill]

I still have all my cds but that sounds a decent idea for being out and about. Would it be easy enough to do for a technological idiot?

It took a lot of mucking about alright. I work on mac admin on a daily basis so I have a basis in setting up stuff in Linux.
I read this https://jordancrawford.kiwi/home-server-without-portforward/
And took it from there

I did the following. (there are many other ways to do this I'm sure)
Bought Raspberry Pi 4 and had a 2TB USB drive

Installed Ubuntu Server on the Pi
Installed Docker

Installed Ampache https://ampache.org/ (which is the media server)
Installed Samba (to fileshare with my local machine to copy mp3's to the external drive)
Installed Wireguard https://www.wireguard.com/ (to create a VPN to......)


I have rented a Virtual Machine on http://vultr.com/ (there are others) €5 a month. Up to 1TB of data can be sent through this without and additional charges
This is publicly accessible over the web
I have setup Wireguard there also.

Wireguard creates a  private VPN between the Raspberry Pi on my desk and the virtual server online
I got myself a URL €28 for 3 years I think

I got secure SSL certs for my URL
I setup a website to my URL which points to my virtual machine on the internet

This then connects to my Raspberry Pi with Ampache installed over the VPN and serves music to an app called dSub on my phone

It took a lot of messing, a lot of Googling and I am still figuring it out as I go along

This sounds like a great setup.  I'd love to get something like this going, must look at a few options too.

I ran a couple of solutions like this a few years back, much simpler but not as streamlined for the end result.  First I ran an old laptop running ubuntu as a remote server, that I could access and pull files off of to my phone when needed, which worked well but eventually broke on me - I googled the whole way around setting it up, running something to do with Apache on it, but without any idea what I was doing other than through google I was at a loss to fix it when it failed.

Next option was remote desktop and dropbox, I would connect to the laptop over my phone and drag music folders into dropbox out of my collection when I wanted them, then pull them off the dropbox app on my phone when I had a wifi connection.  This was grand when I had fuck all room on the phone but the way things advanced removed this need significantly, I have about 120GB of space on my phone now so rarely need to swap anything out, just add to it.

[Necro Red]

I still have all my cds but that sounds a decent idea for being out and about. Would it be easy enough to do for a technological idiot?

It took a lot of mucking about alright. I work on mac admin on a daily basis so I have a basis in setting up stuff in Linux.
I read this https://jordancrawford.kiwi/home-server-without-portforward/
And took it from there

I did the following. (there are many other ways to do this I'm sure)
Bought Raspberry Pi 4 and had a 2TB USB drive

Installed Ubuntu Server on the Pi
Installed Docker

Installed Ampache https://ampache.org/ (which is the media server)
Installed Samba (to fileshare with my local machine to copy mp3's to the external drive)
Installed Wireguard https://www.wireguard.com/ (to create a VPN to......)


I have rented a Virtual Machine on http://vultr.com/ (there are others) €5 a month. Up to 1TB of data can be sent through this without and additional charges
This is publicly accessible over the web
I have setup Wireguard there also.

Wireguard creates a  private VPN between the Raspberry Pi on my desk and the virtual server online
I got myself a URL €28 for 3 years I think

I got secure SSL certs for my URL
I setup a website to my URL which points to my virtual machine on the internet

This then connects to my Raspberry Pi with Ampache installed over the VPN and serves music to an app called dSub on my phone

It took a lot of messing, a lot of Googling and I am still figuring it out as I go along

That is ridiculously over complicated lad. Playing a CD or vinyl doesn't require effort at all ha ha

[londonleatherboy]

Agreed

[Ducky]

Having a 128GB SD card in me phone sure as fuck seems a lot easier. Have a Blutooth speaker for out in the garden/shed/shower/whatever, have earbuds in my coat pocket, or if I'm going for a walk, one of my better headphones.

Still have a dedicated listening corner at home too.

[Carnage]

Is there a decent android app for playing music - one that cuts out gaps between tracks, specifically. I have an Ipod alright but the bluetooth adaptor eats the battery, be good to have a decent back up.

[Doctor Crippen]

Have an ipod works well