Plex tripled its lifetime pass and now charges to stream your own files. Bitwarden scrubbed "Always free" as private-equity execs moved in. One week, one lesson about whose "lifetime" it really is, and why you should hold the key yourself.

Once upon a time, Plex was a free app that was a fork of XBMC (Kodi) that you could use as a full-screen media player on a computer, or to stream media over a local network. And you can still use it for those things. But these days Plex also offers ad-supported TV & movie streaming, […]

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Every time I purchase digital music it gets downloaded and archived the exact same way.

To track the music I listen to I need to add records for artists and albums associated with them. This is something I've tackled manually — add an artist name, slug, description and a record for each album.

I've talked about building my own music scrobbler , I've talked about improving it and I've complained about wanting to stream my own music and then I wrote a retrospective about it . I've settled on something that works, so let's look at it in a bit more detail.

I think my self-hosted scrobbling implementation is, at this point, fairly stable. The charts I'm calculating track pretty closely with last.fm's and I'm inclined to chalk the difference up to how we're calculating/slicing dates.

I think my self-hosted scrobbling implementation is, at this point, fairly stable. The charts I'm calculating track pretty closely with last.fm's and I'm inclined to chalk the difference up to how we're calculating/slicing dates.

I wrote (fairly) recently about implementing my own scrobbler using Plex webhooks, edge functions and blob storage. So far — so far — this has worked quite well.

I wrote (fairly) recently about implementing my own scrobbler using Plex webhooks, edge functions and blob storage. So far — so far — this has worked quite well.

I've written before about embedding music into my site and I've largely used Last.fm to do so. Their API is rather extensive, though it is showing its age — the default response format is XML, they've dropped artist images and have intermittently failed to return album art. ListenBrainz is great, but client support is still lacking. I've also tried charting Apple Music data from their (quite…

I've written before about embedding music into my site and I've largely used Last.fm to do so. Their API is rather extensive, though it is showing its age — the default response format is XML, they've dropped artist images and have intermittently failed to return album art. ListenBrainz is great, but client support is still lacking. I've also tried charting Apple Music data from their (quite…