For the first time in more than a decade I bought music instead of subscribing to a streaming service or getting it for YouTube.
I went with Qobuz since I can download the album DRM-free, and they also let me listen to it on my phone through their app.
Best of both worlds.
Started buying music 2 years ago with just a tiny tiny more in a month than subscripton cost and now having quite a nice collection.
I also recieved some albums as gifts.
@didek right, (part of) the rationale for me is that the cost to build a collection can be intimidating, but once you have it it ends up being cheaper than a subscription model
There is no end, unless you do not discover new music. There is also the cost of storage. NAS can be build for countless different things, but some people would start with zero. And the cost of time to find and sometimes rip CDs as most popular albums are available DRM-free only physical.
But for me it's worth it. NAS is used heavly, but even without it all music files take 12GB, so easy to manage with something like Syncthing. And what would I have now, after two years, of subscripton? Another month to pay. Instead I have hundreds of songs. And no proprietary Android app to care about.
@didek @thibaultamartin I don't even bother with NAS these days, my (mostly FLAC) collection is 130GB and I just rsync it to phone's SD card occasionally. I still have a small stash of CDs waiting to be ripped once I feel the need to grab something new. What I don't feel the need to do is to attach myself to some network service.
