The world needs a music app which lets the user plug in their streaming account(s), but also plays locally stored & self-hosted music.

[jwcph@helvede.net]

The world needs a music app which lets the user plug in their streaming account(s), but also plays locally stored & self-hosted music.

I would be nice if it could hold mixed-source playlists but it doesn't have to - think of it as an old-timey stereo, where stuff goes in from any source that has an audio output & from there to your ears.

I'm prepared to pay good money for this.

#interoperability #disenshittification #tech #music

[katzentratschen@mastodon.social]

@jwcph AFAIK the Sonos App for its speakers used to do this or still does. 🫠

[jwcph@helvede.net]

@katzentratschen Key part of that sentence: "- for its speakers"...

[mthaastrup@helvede.net]

@jwcph @katzentratschen as far as I remember you can use Ikea speakers with Sonos as well, though

[jwcph@helvede.net]

@MThaastrup @katzentratschen I may not be much of an audiophile, but I'm a bit more of one than that, unfortunately... Generally speaking I don't want this app that I'm fantasizing about to be tied to hardware - not phones, not earbuds, not speakers or amplifiers.

[katzentratschen@mastodon.social]

@MThaastrup @jwcph Not any more. They've ended their collaboration.

[mthaastrup@helvede.net]

@katzentratschen @jwcph Didn't know that