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upstatemike
December 22, 2017
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The End of Personal Music Uploads

Looks like Amazon is planning to end your ability to upload or play personal music files, and many predict that all of the other music streaming services will eventually do the same. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/12/amazon-music-ends-mp3-upload-support-will-end-music-storage-service-in-2019/

This is a blow to folks who have collected tracks not offered by any music service and are unhappy with the reduced development of local library features and management. The answer for those needing to play files from their local library has always been "Just upload them to a streaming service", but now that option is disappearing with no good alternative being offered. Let's hope Sonos redirects some resources back to the local library side of the house before the ability to play those treasured files that don't exist in Music Service libraries disappears for good.
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      chicks
      May 27, 2018

      People who care what songs and versions of songs they listen to as well as what order they listen to those tracks in should still stick with local music libraries.

      BubbleUPnP app can source from Google Drive, Amazon Cloud Drive, Microsoft OneDrive, DropBox and Box, and render to Sonos. Not much call for a local NAS these days. I work at a huge Dow component company. We recently switched from LAN drives to Google Drive. It's in no danger of going away.

      Playing from Google Drive right now to my Sonos Connect:Amp->QUAD ESL-63s.

      upstatemikeAuthor
      May 27, 2018

      People who care what songs and versions of songs they listen to as well as what order they listen to those tracks in should still stick with local music libraries.

      BubbleUPnP app can source from Google Drive, Amazon Cloud Drive, Microsoft OneDrive, DropBox and Box, and render to Sonos. Not much call for a local NAS these days. I work at a huge Dow component company. We recently switched from LAN drives to Google Drive. It's in no danger of going away.

      Playing from Google Drive right now to my Sonos Connect:Amp->QUAD ESL-63s.



      I am more open to cloud storage than I am to streaming music services which can change on a whim. As you point out cloud based drives are not likely to go away though there are a lot more potential points of failure in the trip from storage to player.

      The nice thing about LAN storage besides simplicity and total control is the ability to easily share the same library across a lot of different products. My music directory is accessed by Sonos, Squeezebox, and Alexa via the MySpeaker and MyMedia skills. I can reuse the same M3U playlists across multiple platforms as well. Maybe these would all work with a cloud drive but I'm not certain of it.
      Local music library with carefully constructed playlists - no shuffling!, Integration with Homeseer Automation, No touch screen devices, No streaming services, No Apple products ever
      chicks
      chicks
      May 27, 2018
      Try the Mypod Alexa skill, which can play from Google Drive. Very limited, but someone will eventually make a product that combines Alexa with one of the cloud drives, and works everywhere...
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