Streaming service OR your own local content?

[Fernandodelae]

Listening mainly to my Apple Music Playlist, I´ve created over 20 of diverse genres. But also Chillout or blues stations on Tune In, selecting the ones with best sound.

When I have more time I enjoy reviving my CD selection, simply sounds amazing.

 

[AlanB]

as a joke I was going to call this "What are you listening to?". 3200+ posts! but seriously...

Q1. Most of the time, what do you listen to, a Streaming service or content from a local drive on your network?

Q2. Do you listen to individual songs, traditional albums (format), playlists, or suggested content?

Most of my library is FLAC rips of my CDs and some purchased downloads. What I have now was not too long ago a dream, but I was wondering how most (that stream) are enjoying their music.

Thanks

I have 24,000 tracks on my local drive and an Amazon Unlimited subscription and listen to both equally.

I prefer to listen to whole albums when streaming and a random selection when listening to my own music.

 

[Jomitch]

I am in the UK and run a Wiim pro through an external Dac, streaming Tidal, which sounds very good through my Quad/Harbeth system.

However I recently took a free month's trial of a relatively new streaming service "Prestomusic" (March 23), which is designed for Classical and Jazz enthusiasts and has an extensive catalogue of 200,000 classical and Jazz albums, updated with the latest releases weekly, streaming up to 24bit x 192kHz. It runs apps for iOS, Android and desktop and is available in a number of countries. See their website <prestomusic.com/streaming> for further details.

I linked my new Windows 11 desktop to my Hi-fi and listened to the same Hi Res streams from both Tidal and Prestomusic and preferred the sound of the latter. More natural timbre and firmer detailed bass although the soundstage wasn't quite so wide .It wasn't a scientific exercise of course and I am sure equipment, room acoustics,volume and especially ears, play a part in the sound quality judgement!

I would have preferred to use a streamer directly through my Hi-fi but this new service is not of course included in the Wiim App.
Prestomusic have their own streamer, and the App also runs on BluOS devices.
I don't want to run two streaming devices, due to limited dac inputs but If Wiim ever includes this streaming service on its devices, I shall definitely be switching from Tidal to Prestomusic.

I would be interested to know if others have tried this service and what they think of it.

 

[joffy1780]

I am in the UK and run a Wiim pro through an external Dac, streaming Tidal, which sounds very good through my Quad/Harbeth system.

However I recently took a free month's trial of a relatively new streaming service "Prestomusic" (March 23), which is designed for Classical and Jazz enthusiasts and has an extensive catalogue of 200,000 classical and Jazz albums, updated with the latest releases weekly, streaming up to 24bit x 192kHz. It runs apps for iOS, Android and desktop and is available in a number of countries. See their website <prestomusic.com/streaming> for further details.

I linked my new Windows 11 desktop to my Hi-fi and listened to the same Hi Res streams from both Tidal and Prestomusic and preferred the sound of the latter. More natural timbre and firmer detailed bass although the soundstage wasn't quite so wide .It wasn't a scientific exercise of course and I am sure equipment, room acoustics,volume and especially ears, play a part in the sound quality judgement!

I would have preferred to use a streamer directly through my Hi-fi but this new service is not of course included in the Wiim App.
Prestomusic have their own streamer, and the App also runs on BluOS devices.
I don't want to run two streaming devices, due to limited dac inputs but If Wiim ever includes this streaming service on its devices, I shall definitely be switching from Tidal to Prestomusic.

I would be interested to know if others have tried this service and what they think of it.

Does either the Android or iOS app have Chromecast/Airplay option?

 

[Mr Ee]

Does either the Android or iOS app have Chromecast/Airplay option?

Chromecast for classical music? Blasphemy!
It. Would. Keep. On. Stopping.

 

[r5yk5]

I sometimes listen to a record through a pro plus or a cassette through a mini. If I have free time, I listen to my digital collection using emby media server and the android app symfonium. I use the smart playlist function or the random album function to help select. Most of my digital music is CDs ripped to flac, about 80,000 tracks.

But when I'm just going about my daily business at home or out and about, I can't be faffed messing about with my phone choosing music and what have you. So I have another server that mirrors the digital music collection as backup. This runs a command line music player called cmus which plays my collection 24/7. It then uses a program called darkice to create a radio station streaming whatever cmus is playing in ogg-vorbis at 500kb that I can access at home and when I'm out via cellular data.

I have some scripts that are called at various times that will filter the library based on the file path or genre or whatever and queue up some random albums based on those filters. So currently I get some new-age music between 4.30-6am, then some punk/metal for the gym till 7, Pop/Rock 1 till 5, some Jazz/Blues/World/Country/Folk till 9 then some chamber music/classical vocal at night. All from my own collection and always whole albums. It's easy to change the filters and times if I want but I rarely do.

My wiim remotes in the kitchen and living room have that radio station as a preset and my Bluetooth speakers in the bathroom and garage play it automatically when I switch them on.

Never, ever a streaming service. I have enough music of my own and I don't think any of them would allow me to do what I just described automatically.

 

[d6jg]

I sometimes listen to a record through a pro plus or a cassette through a mini. If I have free time, I listen to my digital collection using emby media server and the android app symfonium. I use the smart playlist function or the random album function to help select. Most of my digital music is CDs ripped to flac, about 80,000 tracks.

But when I'm just going about my daily business at home or out and about, I can't be faffed messing about with my phone choosing music and what have you. So I have another server that mirrors the digital music collection as backup. This runs a command line music player called cmus which plays my collection 24/7. It then uses a program called darkice to create a radio station streaming whatever cmus is playing in ogg-vorbis at 500kb that I can access at home and when I'm out via cellular data.

I have some scripts that are called at various times that will filter the library based on the file path or genre or whatever and queue up some random albums based on those filters. So currently I get some new-age music between 4.30-6am, then some punk/metal for the gym till 7, Pop/Rock 1 till 5, some Jazz/Blues/World/Country/Folk till 9 then some chamber music/classical vocal at night. All from my own collection and always whole albums. It's easy to change the filters and times if I want but I rarely do.

My wiim remotes in the kitchen and living room have that radio station as a preset and my Bluetooth speakers in the bathroom and garage play it automatically when I switch them on.

Never, ever a streaming service. I have enough music of my own and I don't think any of them would allow me to do what I just described automatically.

I like that approach but it could be done with just one server in play and the "daily background station" could include stuff from certain streaming services if you wished.

I do exactly the same but using only LMS and a WiiM Mini as my office player with a couple of Plugins that create a continuous but semi focused output comprising a mix of local and Qobuz FLACs.

Elsewhere in the house I use a host of different players including a WiiM Pro all using the same LMS. The WiiM Home app just doesn't work the way I want it to in comparison.

I do also play Vinyl etc on a whole house basis but my solution pre-dates the existence of WiiM - a Raspberry Pi with a USB ADC and a combination of Liquidsoap and Icecast2 which produces the same result as your cmus/darkice approach which LMS can play.

 

[Steve Woodhouse]

By default, Amazon Music. My own CD rips only if there’s an active reason for it (different master, etc.).

A mixture of albums and playlists. However, I have many albums saved as playlists with b-sides (etc.) stuck on the end.