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There is still no (to my knowledge) killer NAS setup for music.

Everything is slow, or messy, or has a crap interface. Sometimes all three. Then you take your laptop out of your house and you don't have access to any of your music.

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iTunes Match is the closest I've gotten. I pay for the upgraded storage and its enough to store my entire music library. Anywhere I go I can listen to anything I own with no delay (assume a decent network connection).

I've had a similar experience with Google Music. I have iTunes Match for my iOS/Mac devices, but prefer Google Music as it works on my Android devices and anywhere a decent web browser is. If there was a nice web interface for iTunes Match so my play counts and playlists synced nicely, I'd probably use that, but for now Google Music works.

Bonus benefit of iTunes Match + Google Music is that I can redownload my older iTUnes songs DRM-free so the uploader will pull them in.

I was under the impression that iTunes Match doesn't eat into your iCloud storage, which is why it's a separate expense.

It doesn't. You're limited to 25,000 of your own (i.e. not purchased from iTunes) songs.

It does if it can't find matches for your tracks. This will happen generally with obscure tracks or live recordings, but sometimes it just fails to match things that are clearly in the iTunes store too.

Does it work abroad, or would you need to use a VPN?

Works fine

(Source: I have a US iTunes account and I'm living in Germany)

My Synology NAS coupled with a Squeeze Box service is fantastic.

The Synology NAS does include the Squeeze Box service software that can easily be streamed and played seamlessly on your PC or on a physical Squeeze Box server.

My wife and I utilize box in our house and have had zero issues with network latency, file indexing, and general performance.

I use Subsonic. I stream music locally/remotely to my phone/laptop without a problem.

As do I. I use the MiniSub Chrome app when I'm listening on a desktop computer, the included web interface when I'm importing or curating my library, and iSub on my iPhone/iPad.

I'm only a week or so into this setup, but I'm loving it so far - I really feel like I have control over my music once again, vs. Spotify which I'm planning to downgrade to the free edition.

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