This month in digital music libraries - October 2020
October 27, 2020 in digital music by Dan Gravell
The past month has brought us yet more developments in the world of personal music hosting, Rolling Stone released its latest list of reckons and Sony Music and Warner Music collectively stroked their white Persian cats while spinning slowly on a large leather-bound chair…
Rolling Stone updates its 500 Best Albums list
You might not be into Best Albums lists but… I am. If nothing else it helps queue up a few “I always meant to buy that” used CDs in my crate digging checklist.
The @RollingStone 500 Best Albums list has been updated https://t.co/Vm0EV3LQM2 . pic.twitter.com/zLyrHcfl4Q
— bliss (@bliss_music) September 27, 2020
More developments in personal music hosting
Personal music hosting is my own name for the growing approach to music library ownership: owning and taking responsibility for your music, but utilising the benefits of the cloud and the Internet and other modern technology for backups, streaming and more.
John Darko produced a slick video of using Plex to stream remotely:
Considered using @PlexApp as a personal music streaming platform? A nicely produced video by @DarkoAudio https://t.co/ezG6tNXn37 pic.twitter.com/ReUw9hfx8Y
— bliss (@bliss_music) October 2, 2020
John then followed up with a few alternatives…
Alternatives to @PlexApp for streaming music around, and outside, your home by @DarkoAudio https://t.co/gJqmbJS0hF pic.twitter.com/5AbaJoUese
— bliss (@bliss_music) September 29, 2020
There are a few more alternatives to Plex listed here.
Meanwhile, a new project was born to stream music from online drives:
A new music player project that streams from online storage https://t.co/tJzWRkgooy
— bliss (@bliss_music) October 7, 2020
Finally, Degoo are offering a lifetime 1TB storage plan for your music library for a one-off payment of $50.
Interesting - @DegooBackup are offering a lifetime 1TB storage plan for $50 https://t.co/BuWOD3mjev - service longevity unknown, but that would be a good price for one year, let alone lifetime. pic.twitter.com/9bYUqynzcR
— bliss (@bliss_music) October 13, 2020
Interesting times!
TuneIn TurnOff
Huge corporations and user-hostile legal action; name a more iconic duo.
For those in the UK, users of @TuneIn are not able to access international radio stations anymore, because those stations don't have licences to broadcast in the UK. Worrying ramifications for Internet radio... https://t.co/oOnM8DNran pic.twitter.com/XewGbjyjnb
— bliss (@bliss_music) October 19, 2020
HDD reliability
Backblaze have updated their quarterly HDD reliability survey, in case you’re in the market for some new storage…
Thinking of getting a new HDD for your music? The latest @backblaze HDD reliability survey is out: https://t.co/tdbQfPzJha pic.twitter.com/CEePadflqJ
— bliss (@bliss_music) October 24, 2020
Here’s to November!
Photo by Roman Kraft on Unsplash
