I would like to switch away from Apple Music, and Spotify despite being a European company, is not a desirable option for me. What music streaming services would you recommend?
I managed to download a text-only list of the albums in my Apple Music library, so if there’s a simple library import option then that would also be very helpful.
If you’re okay doing a little bit of legwork: Whatbox.ca as a remote service that you can upload (or download torrents) directly to it. I think they’re Canadian but I’m not 100% - just has a lot of good guides to get you up and running.
I’m a fan of Plex, but they are an American company and they continue to enshitify with their policies - I bought a lifetime pass a long time ago because I really enjoyed their music player plexamp.
Jellyfin is the free and open source option, but I don’t think you’ll get some of the nice features like music analysis and a library radio that tries to pull things together in a somewhat comprehensive way.
This is my music solution. If you’re listening at lossless and only have 1000 albums their smallest option is 2tb server slot which would likely be hosted in NL.
RE: risk tolerance if you’ve got the know how you can set this up on a locally hosted server using Jellyfin and torrent directly to it. Advantage of a seedbox is the transfer of risk.
Thanks for the pointers. If I had 1000 albums already downloaded then I don’t think I’d have a problem setting up something like Jellyfin to stream them to my devices, but the problem is that I’ve only used streaming services for the past ~15 years or so, which means I would need to do a lot of legwork to locate all of these albums to download.