This quote sums up why Bandcamp makes sense to artists. Listening now to music off Bandcamp. Buy Vinyl also get .flac an the artist gets the dollars and data. How good is that.
Me too. Funny how that seems quaint these days. I hope owning music (or God forbid, lossless) never goes away entirely.
So I'm working on migrating the server to raspberry pi's and AWS, depending on power needed and ARM availability.
My only issue is that a dual xeon with that much ram can run a LOT of stuff at once. and I have a lot of minor things packed into it. I think almost all the stuff will run on raspberry pi's, but I might wind up needing 20 of them at this point.
But yes. I think a small NAS and a raspberry pi running a media server should basically be a given for people these days. It's an amazing concept to actually own and control data.
I find it perplexing when some artists' web sites make the iTunes and Spotify links more prominent and in some cases don't even include the Bandcamp link despite having the record listed there.
Bigger market and money. There are more phones than PC's.