Friday, 20th June, 2025

Spotify premium is due to expire in 3 days. I’m thinking I don’t need it. I only listen to a handful of songs and albums. I have some music which I ripped from my CDs a decade+ ago and some other random stuff I’ve picked up since. So I’m deciding what I’m doing. Options are navidrome or similar server with my music on and apps to stream it. Or copies on my phone and devices or maybe iTunes/iCloud solution?

After what felt like a trip down memory lane of 2012 sorting out music libraries, I remembered about iTunes Match. Well I remembered there was something like it. Add you music, it checked them then gave you access to the files in the cloud. Not sure if it needs iCloud space or it just works. I think at the beginning it was free but now it’s £22 a year. This means I wouldn’t have to sync my phone to keep music in check, I could just manage it on the computer and then stream via Apple Music app my music.

The catch is I have to use iTunes to manage my music. Maybe that’s fine as I don’t have that much but I dunno…iTunes doesn’t like FLAC or OGG and most of my music is in those two formats. I can easily convert them though. I’d still have to pay £22 a year for the privilege. But it would be via the music app and have nice integration…except stream to Google mini speakers we have. Although there was something I used to run on the server to act as a bridge.

Hmm. I seem to have deleted half my docker compose file by fat fingering some keys in vim but then saving the file without noticing. Not sure I have a backup. Ugh.

Also this music thing somehow is convincing me to get a MacBook Air.