The tragedy of of this is that these are improvements that would actually improve life in these houses - making them healthier, more comfortable. Trouble is, retrofit is expensive.
Another source are good ol' CDs. If you know where to look you can get them cheap too. Specialist charity shops that specialise in records and CDs in student or wealthy areas are good, as are second hand stores online.
You can get Android based music players (DAPs e.g. https://www.reddit.com/r/DigitalAudioPlayer/ ) which you could install software which streams when online, uses local storage when offline. Look into the Subsonic protocol - many music servers support this and it has built in support for this online/offline dichotomy.
Agree strongly with this. If nothing else, just the way we engage with music should at least be _considered_. It's fine to use it as background if that works for you, but it's not the only way and for people who want to intentionally listen to music many of the paradigms offered by streaming services and devices are all wrong.
I would agree with this - it's the most standardised way we have. Most of the prescribed fields are designed to work for contemporary popular music, but a subset of fields could be used (and if you look into a lot of the definitions they are more abstract than they appear at first).
On top of that, standard data hoarding management applies:
- Take backups.
- Try to record in lossless forms if you can - better flexibility later if you don't throw data away.
There're decent communities of people who like to manage their own tech (example: r/selfhosted) and those that like to assemble their own library (r/musichoarder) and then everything in between - so there are options for this.
Wanted to use Spotify, used it, but cannot rely on it. It is not serving (this) client's needs but their own. I did not want to invest into self hosting and managing collections but the way content mmanagers do is just ruining fun. This is the least bad, doing by myself, so I can enjoy listening to music again (after the investment period of building it up). Without being tossed around by others want me to manipulate into their own kind of way, forcing me to get used to new ways of their own forced through, ruing desired ones already existed. That is no fun!
