I’ve already spent some time stepping away from streaming with another digital audio player, but the Snowsky Echo sits in a slightly different space. Where something like the Innioasis Y1 leans heavily into affordable nostalgia as a concept, the Echo feels more like an attempt to refine it, to
  • Obituarykidney@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13·
    3 days ago

    People here are complaining about another device to carry around, android phones not having enough storage, streaming being better etc.

    There are programs and apps to stream your own. I have a nas (network attached storage) where I keep my music. It came with a music player and a mobile app out of the box that can stream and cast my collection. Plex can also do it quite easily. I’m sure there are others too.

    • _aj@piefed.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 days ago

      Navidrome + Audinaut for home, local cached files for the road.  I too wonder if I would carry another device. The sound quality would need to be killer.

    • Bilb!@lemmy.mlEnglish
      9·
      3 days ago

      I find Navidrome to be pretty fantastic. I set it up on an orange pi I had laying around just last week.

    • remon@ani.socialEnglish
      3·
      3 days ago

      Exactly this.

      Also plexamp is a great player and if you give it a couple of GB of file cache it even works offline (for recently played stuff).

    • cosmo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      3 days ago

      Plexamp is just wonderful, even if the Plex music library management is slightly lacking. Before I moved my music to a Plex server on my NAS I used DoubleTwist’s Cloud Player and streamed my own music out of my Google Drive storage. This was 10 years ago, but it did the job well enough. However Plex made all my music available all the time directly on my phone. No moving of files to cloud storage necessary. Easy switch.