It’s not as hard as you’re making it out to be, but then again, the assumption that the barrier to entry is high is what keeps piracy niche, and as long as it’s niche copyright enforcement doesn’t notice as much… so I guess it all works out.

But there are sites that you can visit that use rotating family accounts to download music straight from qobuz and the like. Theres nothing sketchy there, it just violates the ToS to use accounts like that.

I’d be terrified that something would startle the cat and she’d fall.

Hey, cool. I like Eddy Burback.

What great ideas! Have you been trained in city development?

Yo this bit was legit!

I do not know what movie this is.

Who are you?

Are those… cheap? They don’t look cheap.

Now that’s cool. Err, hot. Err, you know what I mean.

Airsonic, which is a fork of a fork of subsonic. It works great for music. Video support is there, but finnecky.

On Android I use DSub, which is/was a paid app. It works great, best airsonic/subsonic app I’ve used (all subsonic apps work with airsonic).

When you add music to your “now playing” on your device it cashes the tracks and doesn’t delete them until the cache reaches a certain size, which you can set in your preferences. So you could set the cache to 50 gigs or whatever and pre-load 50 gigs of your favorite songs from your server. Or just cache/stream on the fly from wherever via your phone’s data or random wifi.

Does anyone else self-host their music? (I suppose this would also be a thing if you stream from Spotify) but my music device greatly benefits from having some form of Internet connection for when I want to update it.

I self-host, so when I add music to my server my phone sees it automatically. I wouldn’t want to copy my music onto my server and onto an mp3 device, nor do I want to pay for separate internet service on an mp3 device.

PNG beers? Do I look like I know what a JPEG is???

I still haven’t gotten into 3d printing, so take this with a grain of salt, but,

The technology is always improving. Waiting will always get you something more advanced, but if you have something you want to do with a 3D printer, just get one. Eventually you’ll get a better one either way. If you’ll have fun with it now and you have the time, jump in. :)

I am not disappoint.

Yeah, I get the joke in the post, but anyone who listens to RatM should very quickly understand what “the machine” is.

Funkwhale is interesting, but feels more like a plex/subsonic/jellyfin server than a social media place. I can’t follow artists on Funkwhale and listen to their latest posts. There isn’t a “feed” anywhere, it’s more like a giant shared-music server (unless I’m missing something).

It feels rough around the edges still, kind of like the early internet. Like your part of something that’s still a work in progress. It also feels a little smaller, like if you say something you’re more likely to be heard, instead of your voice being drowned in a sea of comments.