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Streaming services have made music both better and worse
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this post was submitted on 05 Mar 2026
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Or anything that forces you to leave home
You take it with you like the good old days
Early walkmans were quite unwieldy
I had a Sony CD walkman, a later model with read ahead buffer. It did OK for normal walking.
No actually I can carry all the music I want in the storage of my phone. It's nice to have unlimited access to it even when there is no cellular data or wifi available. Sometimes I go fully out of range of all Internets but I still have music.
That's nice for small collection, but I don't want to buy a 2 TB SD card for my phone that I then have to keep in sync, so streaming from my home server is a far better option.
And with a music play with a cache, you can still listen to your regular playlists while offline.