> With streaming, there's just a single set of credentials to manage
The same credentials I use to buy new music: my password manager master password.
> and making it accessible to each device you want to listen from.
Syncthing directory; set and forget just works on all my devices.
> If I hear a song I like from an artist, I can spend zero marginal dollars to find out if I like anything else they've made.
Streaming services don't vanish when I primarily listen to DRM free music. Sometimes I find new music on Youtube. I usually find new music from word of mouth.
I don't know, I just don't see any of these as limitations that I run into.
For that first one, it should be read as "the only thing to manage is a single set of credentials", not focusing on the numbers of credentials per se. Good examples of things you don't have to manage with streaming: how to setup syncthing on any devices, any storage to hold the media, or any configuration to make the storage available over the internet. Maybe it's not that hard if you know what you're doing, I'm confident I could manage, but it's darn nice having to bother. It certainly takes far more marginal work to manage than streaming, if only because streaming requires no marginal work to manage.
The same credentials I use to buy new music: my password manager master password.
> and making it accessible to each device you want to listen from.
Syncthing directory; set and forget just works on all my devices.
> If I hear a song I like from an artist, I can spend zero marginal dollars to find out if I like anything else they've made.
Streaming services don't vanish when I primarily listen to DRM free music. Sometimes I find new music on Youtube. I usually find new music from word of mouth.
I don't know, I just don't see any of these as limitations that I run into.