When you don’t subscribe to a music streaming service you sometimes lose touch with new music for your fave artists and even finding new artists. I’ve found a few services I can purchase flac from without a subscription (qobuz, 7digital, Bandcamp, bleep).
It would be great when on artist page it there were “Other albums by {artists name}” that I don’t have on my library, with either a link to the flac for sale or a connected service. Either way surely this could be a revenue stream for Plex. ???
I know this is never simple, as searching some artists you need to look at several stores to find the desired album as flac and price and availability differed per region…but still…it would be awesome. What do you think? Also I used to really enjoy Pandora’s similar artists…and it wasn’t just crowd sourced “people who like xxx also. Like yyy…”.
Find ing new artists where you can listen to at least some of a track and purchase a flac without a subscription. Where do you guys currently do this. If listening to your own owned music inside plexamp?
Yes. That works ok, (I had a 3 month trial) however if I could afford to stream hq tidal I probably wouldn’t be even using plexamp. With every song at your fingertips on hq why would you run a plex server for music?
I like to own music. As much as that can be done. I’d guess most people using plexamp have a plex server with owned music or no???
Fairt enough.
Maybe i just dont want to pay to discover. I use discogs and the places i use to purchase to discover, I was just hopong there was an automated option…
Actually i can see how this could be a whole separate (maybe even social) discovery system that keeps you upto date with your musical heroes and makes money just by affiliate links.
Well…I’d sign up to be alerted about new albums and tickets anyway. If they were relevant to me and not spam…but maybe im odd.
Free is always nice, but I guess I don’t see how the cost of an album or two a month for access to millions of high quality albums, related to your own library, is a bad investment. It saves me lots of time, and we all know time is money
For me, Plex Media Server and Plexamp are simply the most elegant and simple interface I have found for my private collection of music (all 16/44 CD quality FLAC files). Like Elan, it’s ownership over discovery. I use TIDAL to discover and then buy what I really like to support the artist. And with the Plex TIDAL integration, you get the same simple interface. The #1 reason I love Plexamp is the emphasis on collection over discovery. The native apps for streaming services put the emphasis on discovery over collection (i.e. favorites), which makes those apps just another giant ad-based interface and your favorites are buried in their somewhere.
