I Miss Streaming Music

So, awhile back, I decided to start self hosting my music collection. I’m sure I’ve at least mentioned it somewhere here on the blog. I re-downloaded my entire collection and more beyond that. Nearly 5TB of new music was stored on my various hard drives. It took months. And by the end, I was pretty damn proud of it. I’ve been using that system now for months, and I’ve realized that I miss streaming services like Tidal and Spotify. It makes me feel a little dirty writing it, but it’s true. Why? Music Discovery. See, I have an issue that has been developing over these months of using my own music: I have been listening to the same songs over and over and over again. Very rarely to I venture out into anything different. I’ve tried ListenBrainz playlists, which supposedly help, but they aren’t very good even though I scrobble everything. I’ve tried to listen to actual radio again. Pro tip: don’t do that. FM Radio was always bad on the advertisement front, but it is WAY worse now. One…