Thanks for your insight
They kept jacking up the prices and making the streaming services worse so I finally pulled the plug and went offline. It’s a pain in the ass, to be honest, but once it’s all set up it’s really quite nice. The only long term issue is discoverability. I feel a bit like I’m stuck with the music I have now and discovering new music and listening to it is such a hassle that I just don’t do it. That said, I no longer pay for streaming, and I like what I have, so I’m not complaining.
I can strongly recommend Plexamp, which integrates well into an existing Plex setup.
Lidarr is a great complement to an existing Arr stack. And if you’re going to host your own music, you might as well look at Sonarr and Radarr, which are so great.
Personally, I just pirate the FLAC files from RED, and play them with VLC. Several advantages to this:
- Spotify is owned by a shitty, greedy company with shitty, greedy practices.
- Spotify enforces DRM on almost all its media.
- FLAC files have superior quality as they are lossless
- I can play them offline without a subscription
- Downloads are pretty much instant, as private trackers have insane seeder to leecher ratio
I’m sorry if this isn’t the response you’re looking for, but as other people have already given recommendations for alternatives, I thought I would just give my 2 cents.
FYI for everyone, RED is a private tracker
