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I stopped playing music on my Android phone and went back to my iPod (www.androidauthority.com)
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[–] NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I couldn't imagine. What a pain in the ass. I run my own server and stream my own music, so having to copy to an ipod would suck. It always sucked. Can you just copy files over with linux? syncthing? anything convenient?

Hard pass. Your own server is streaming all your music to all your devices.

[–] yopyop@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

But you know, for others dealing with a server IS a pain in the ass. Copying audio files and making some updates from time to time is way simpler for other people.

[–] NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You forgot the part where they have to use iTunes.

[–] yopyop@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

If you install the great Rockbox, you no longer need iTunes. Fantastic software, not so difficult to install.

www.rockbox.org for those who don't know.

[–] bathroomconnoisseur@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I've got my own server but I wanted to give this a try for fun anyway. iTunes seems to have no problem using a library that lives on a local server and syncing it to an iPod. I'm guessing you need a windows computer or mac to run iTunes though, it's been over a decade since I last tried to get it to work on a Linux machine

[–] NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago

And Itunes on windows is just a marvel of shitty design. I hate itunes so much.

On a mac I dislike it as well, but itunes on windows is just awful.