This month in digital music libraries - May 2025
May 30, 2025 in digital music by Dan Gravell
This month: more changes to Plex for music, hi-fi M&A, Synology’s restrictions on non-proprietary storage, and mainstream media validation for ripping lossless.
More Plex changes
… but not pricing changes this time.
Plex are segmenting their apps to different use cases; one for video, one for music, one for photos. However, this means the playback and casting options in individual apps are being streamlined to ones relevant to the usecase. So, for example, TV devices are denoted to be video, and once the changes are implemented only video, not music, can be sent to devices like AppleTV.
A growing realisation that @plex.tv 's decision to segment their apps means fewer options for playing music on home theatre setups www.reddit.com/r/plexamp/co... clue: use #AirPlay or #Chromecast (ref www.plex.tv/blog/the-fut... )
— bliss - automated music library management (@blisshq.com) 6 May 2025 at 12:00
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Hardware news
Buy ALL the hi-fi companies!
Samsung buys #BowersAndWilkins #Denon #Marantz and #Polk - phew! www.engadget.com/audio/samsun...
— bliss - automated music library management (@blisshq.com) 8 May 2025 at 12:00
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The slow motion dismantling of storage interoperability in Synology devices continues…
The new #Synology devices which only use proprietary, Synology-branded storage are coming out... www.alpha-audio.net/streaming-au... #NoThanks @mariushosting.com
— bliss - automated music library management (@blisshq.com) 18 May 2025 at 16:01
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However one bliss user chipped in with some helpful workarounds…
Even The Economist rips lossless (probably)
This is from the Mainstream Media but it’s not Fake News…
Add this one to the list of reasons to rip lossless www.economist.com/science-and-...
— bliss - automated music library management (@blisshq.com) 24 May 2025 at 16:02
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See you next month!
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