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Unfortunately I was seduced by the iPod years ago. I ripped then sold mine and the ex-wife's CD collection totalling some 1800 albums years ago. Then went streaming and as about 99% of that was covered, deleted it all because I couldn't be bothered to manage it all.

I wish was that old curmudgeon you mention back then!

Not sure if S3 is a hard requirement for you. But many in the self-hosted community use Plexamp/Jellyfin.

I personally really like: https://github.com/sentriz/gonic

Put it behind tailscale or similar vpn and listen to your music anywhere!

I just plug my iphone into my mac and drag the files into VLC.

Last thing I want to do is make things even more complicated or have to maintain and pay for my own homebrew spotify.

It's on a different subdomain for support and hosted by something else. So while some domain ownership issues or poorly prepared dns changes could impact both, it's not the same as their actual service.

It's called a liveness probe :) maybe they use it for load balancer health checks...

It's not DNS.

It can't be DNS.

It was DNS.

100% seems to be rounding up a bit. Is it all on your device? Because that's a pretty prominent path to failure. Do you host it yourself in a service? Even if your OS layer has resilience, and your disks are resilient to failure, you have redundant power to your hosting infrastructure and your network connection? If it's in the cloud, it's not like AWS or the like don't have their own issues. People saying their own setup of anything has 100% uptime with no paths to failure I think are under-estimating how many ways your self-managed service could become unavailable. This is the first time I can ever remember having spotify have an outage of this magnitude (and I use it all day, every day) and it only lasted 5 hours. Pretty good SLA.

I understand you as saying "I don't want to use a product because in future it'll turn to shit".

Spotify has not turned to shit. It might happen in future but isn't happening right now and they're showing no signs of letting it happen.

If and when Spotify does turn to shit I'll move on: I'll download my playlists and fetch every track via yt-dlp, deemix, et al., manage tags and cover art with musicbrainz et al, use AI to create tools that generate playlists that I can sync to my devices. I'll carry it with me on all my devices. I anticipate the library being around 30-60gb, not that much these days. But man is all that a ton of work.

My world-view is: I use great stuff while it's great, and hedge against it turning to shit by having an escape plan. But to sit around not using something great because there's a chance it might turn to shit in the future, is missing out on how good the thing is right now.