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.
