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This is a post about the whole path it took me to get from the old days of Google Music to Navidrome, and some views on the topic. Maybe this is something that interest you, in this case give a read.

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[–] Shin@piefed.social 2 points 3 days ago

Love Navidrome, it’s one of the best pieces of software in my life. [...]

I kind of feel the same. But I had changed my country of living, and left way to much behind my back. But I wasn't fully on the streaming/physical, I was kind of in the middle. Some stuff physical, and also streaming for some stuff.

As a comment to your post, if everything you have is purchased via Bandcamp, I find their own app pretty reasonable for on-the-go streaming, but they actually recently added their own Subsonic-compatible implementation, [...]

I like the idea, but I'm so afraid of the rug pull that I can't get back on this. I'll keep my music on my drive and live like that for some time. Even knowing that the HDDs are getting pricier by the day I want to keep with me for now on. But I like the idea, give you the files, but also provide the option to stream.