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Not surprised. Spotify crapping out constantly and songs disappearing drove me away from streaming. So in 2023 I stopped paying for streaming services entirely and have gone back to actually buying CDs and ripping them or hitting bandcamp for FLACs etc.

Life is much better. No one can take my shit away, I don't depend on some transient service existing or license or any external competence and I can choose how much I want to pay and when. It just works.

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I think I was born an old curmudgeon because I've essentially always felt this way. That said, Spotify got me to subscribe at least for a bit because I could not match its catalog and convenience. I also try and keep a FLAC archive of all music I might want, but some things just don't exist on other mediums these days.

Unfortunately I was seduced by the iPod years ago. I ripped then sold mine and the ex-wife's CD collection totalling some 1800 albums years ago. Then went streaming and as about 99% of that was covered, deleted it all because I couldn't be bothered to manage it all.

I wish was that old curmudgeon you mention back then!

Yes I also host a Navidrome instance at home and connect using subtracks on Android or Feishin on macOS/Windows, and have a Wireguard VPN for connecting when out-and-about.

Is there a way to sync a library of FLACs for example across devices? Like a music player that syncs with a private S3 bucket?

Not sure if S3 is a hard requirement for you. But many in the self-hosted community use Plexamp/Jellyfin.

I personally really like: https://github.com/sentriz/gonic

Put it behind tailscale or similar vpn and listen to your music anywhere!

I just plug my iphone into my mac and drag the files into VLC.

Last thing I want to do is make things even more complicated or have to maintain and pay for my own homebrew spotify.

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