iMartyn wrote: 
> I understand the desire to keep people letting logitech know that we
> still exist, but I currently have everything in a nice offline-first
> manner.
> 
> I currently have spotify as my "I don't have a digitised copy of this
> track in my library at present, go fetch it from 'the internet'" option
> and that works perfectly well via spotty (With the exception that
> because I run multiple networks I have to store user+pass because
> spotify's magic auth assumes you're on the same network).
> 
> I want to discontinue my use of spotify for reasons, and so I'm looking
> at the alternatives, and all of them appear to require an MSB account,
> which I don't want.  Is there a way, or are we back at the argument "we
> want logitech to know who we are and that's worth them having our
> data"?
> 
> I get that argument, but don't agree with the conclusion.  Big companies
> shut down things with lots of users all the time, and wanting them not
> to, where we have to migrate the community elsewhere (there's plenty of
> options for such a community, build servers etc. even free ones because
> it's opensource) is not in my view enough reason for them to collect
> data on me.
> 
> I'm already locked into the ecosystem (5+ devices on my network and an
> lms server running in my local k8s cluster) so switching to some other
> system would be frustrating to say the least.  Any suggestions or do I
> have to start looking into building LMS from scratch and patching it to
> not require the link?

Do you trust Spotify more than Logitech? AFAIK Tidal, Qobuz and the like
require you to use mysqueezebox.

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